26 August – Saint Zephyrinus

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. 

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

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum, translation

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Liber pontificalis

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History

Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.

Writings by Zephyrinus

Decretalia ad Episcopos Per Aegyptum Constitutos 

Decretalia ad Episcopos Per Siciliam Constitutos 

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Portail Biblissima

17C Reliquary Bust

18C Statue

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index
Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – Monstrance.

Sistine Chapel, South Wall
in situ
Die Sixtinische Kapelle

26 August – Saint Alexander of Bergamo & Saint Secundus of Victimulae

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Aram destruxit et zelatus est legem sicut fecit Phinees.
He pulled down the altar and shewed zeal for the law, as Phinees did.
1 Maccabees 2.25-26

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum – Saint Alexander [several (?) pages missing] & Saint Secundus

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (Alexander).

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement (Alexander)

BHL, Supplement (Secundus)

Acta Sanctorum – Saint Alexander (translation) & Saint Secundus (translation)

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database – Saint Alexander & Saint Secundus

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art (Saint Alexander)

BeWeB

Wikimedia Commons – Saint Alexander, Saint Secundus

More Paintings of Alexander

Santi Bartolomeo ed Alessandro dei Bergamaschi

Bergamo Cathedra

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index
Post-Biblical Saints Art Index?
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – armure, autel, epée, groupe, mets.

26 August – Blessed Villana de Botti

Compianto sul Cristo morto by Fra Angelico
“Brother Sebastiano, nephew of the Blessed Villana, had the image of his ancestor painted in the altarpiece together with that of Saint Catherine of Alexandria for whom he took care of the celebration.”

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Short Lives of the Dominican Saints

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum, translation

Art & Architecture

BeWeB

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali
– battesimo di Cristo, angeli, Beata Villana (?), San Domenico
– presentazione di Gesù al tempio, San Pietro Martire, Beata Villana (?)

Tomb, also, photos

Saints and their Attributes

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – miroir.