8 August – Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Martyrologium Romanum (2 August) Character Calendar  Stories of Holy Lives by Mary Seymour. The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times by Constantine Kempf. True Stories for First Communicants (audiobook) Tradition in Action Life of Saint John-Baptist Vianney, Curé d’Ars (1865). BreviariumContinue reading “8 August – Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney”

8 August – Saint Hormizd

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Roman Martyrology Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly. Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu. Tradition in Action Medieval HagiographyContinue reading “8 August – Saint Hormizd”

8 August – Saint Cyriacus, Saint Largus, and Saint Smaragdus

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Martyrologium Romanum Roman Martyrology – 8 August/16 March Sanctorale Catholicum Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger. Victories of the Martyrs by Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Character Calendar  Pictorial Lives of theContinue reading “8 August – Saint Cyriacus, Saint Largus, and Saint Smaragdus”