29 August – The Decollation of John the Baptist

Beheading by Caravaggio
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Illum oportet crescere me autem minui.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3.30
In disco caput Ioannis.
In a dish the head of John the Baptist.
Matthew 14.8

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Character Calendar 

Pictorial Lives of the Saints 

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.

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

La vie des saints

Biblical Texts

Matthew 14 

Mark 6 

Luke 9 

Medieval Hagiography

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium RomanumLatin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art – Beheading, Head on Charger

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Wikipedia List of Depictions 

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database 

A Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts 

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive 

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

The Church of San Giovanni Decollato in Rome (and its painting of the Beheading)

In the Baptistery of Castiglione Olona 

Pisa Altarpiece by Masaccio

Fresco Cycle by Fra Filippo Lippi in the Duomo of Prato

Beheading by Andrea del Verrocchio

Saint John Altarpiece by Hans Memling

The Altar of Saint John by Rogier van der Weyden

Beheading by Lucas Cranach

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Lucas Cranach

Beheading by Vincenzo Danti (see also)

Etching of the Beheading by Rembrandt

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Devotions

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.

Short Discourses for all the Sundays in the Year According to the Mind & Method of the Catechism of the Council of Trent by John McQuirk.

28 August – Saint Augustine

The Lateran
By Giuseppe Franchi in the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Mansi in solitudine expectabam eum, qui salvum me fecit.
I abode in the wilderness. I waited for him that hath saved me.
Psalm 54.8-9
Quando veniam, et apparebo ante faciem tuam.
When shall I come and appear before your face?
Psalm 41.3
Noverim te noverim me.
I would know thee, I would know myself.
Soliloquia

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

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.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the Saints 

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

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.

Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year by Henry Sebastian Bowden.

Short Lives of the Dominican Saints 

Little Lives of the Great Saints by John O’Kane Murray.

Stories of the Saints for Children: The Black Letter Saints by Mrs. Molesworth.

Stories of the Saints Third Series by Mary Seymour.

Short Instructive Sketches from the Lives of the Saints 

Il libro d’oro 

In God’s Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children by Amy Steedman.

Book of Saints and Heroes by Mrs. Lang.

Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages by George Hodges.

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

When They Were Children

Rome and the Negro:  Lives of the Noted African Bishops, Saints, Martyrs, Holy Women and Fathers of Deserts

Great Catholics

“The Woman Whom Augustine Loved” in Great Magdalens by Hugh Francis Blunt.

Tradition in Action

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement 

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Possidius, Life of Saint Augustine 

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium RomanumLatin & English.

Writings of Saint Augustine

Documenta Catholica Omnia 

Wikipedia Bibliography 

Complete Works in English 

Excerpt On the Care to Be had for the Dead 

Excerpt from City of God: Book 22:8-10. On Miracles 

Saint Augustine Volumes at the CCEL (scroll down)

Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope, and Love 

Excerpt on the Feast of the Epiphany

Excerpt on the Nativity of Our Lord

Excerpt on the Providence of God

Excerpt on the Law of God

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

A Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts 

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive 

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

Arca di sant’Agostino – gallery

The Church of Sant’Agostino in Gubbio (see also)

The Church of Sant’Agostino in San Gimignano (see also)

Saint Augustine Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca 

15C Painting 

Saint Augustine in His Study by Botticelli (Uffizi)

Saint Augustine in His Study by Botticelli (Ognissanti)

Saint Augustine in His Study by Carpaccio

Vie en images de saint Augustin par S. à Bolswert (1624)

L’iconographie de saint Augustin 

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index

Saints and their Attributes

Sacred and Legendary Art volume I by Mrs. Jameson.

A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints as Illustrated in Art by Clara Erskine Clement.

A Garner of Saints: Being a Collection of the Legends and Emblems Usually Represented in Art by Allen Hinds.

Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, with Other Contemporary Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.

The Saints in Art with Their Attributes and Symbols, Alphabetically Arranged by Margaret E. Tabor.

Saints and their Symbols: A Companion in the Churches and Picture Galleries of Europe by E. A. Greene.

The Saints in Art by Joseph Maria von Radowitz.

Emblems of Saints by Which They Are Distinguished in Works of Art by F. C. Husenbeth.

Sacred Symbols in Art by Elizabeth Edwards Goldsmith.

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Charpentier, “Pour St Augustin”, H.307 & Pour St Augustin mourant, H.419 (1687)

Devotions

Late Medieval French Prayers

Petitions of Saint Augustine in the Raccolta 

Prayer to Mary 

Prayer to Saint Augustine 

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon.

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.

Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year with an Appendix of Meditations for the Festivals of Various Saints by Augustin Maria Ilg.

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon.

28 August – Saint Moses the Black

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Ancient Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen (audio)

Lausiac History of Palladius

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Portail Biblissima

Saints and their Attributes

Sacred and Legendary Art volume II by Mrs. Jameson.

The Saints in Art by Joseph Maria von Radowitz.

Emblems of Saints by Which They Are Distinguished in Works of Art by F. C. Husenbeth.