Nihil sub sole novum

21 June – Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Bott. italiana sec. XVI, Ritratto di Luigi Gonzaga

*The Vocation of Saint Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga* by Guercino

*Libro del Compendio della vita dei santi*

*Annus Dierum Sanctorum*
*Reliqui domum meam, dimisi haereditatem meam.*
I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance:
Jeremiah 12.7

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

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

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

Lives of the Saints for Children by Theodor Berthold.

Memorials of the Blessed: A Series of Short Lives of the Saints by Charles B. Fairbanks.

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

Stories of the Saints for Children [First Series] by Mary Seymour.

Sermons for Children’s Masses, According to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti.

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays

Patron Saints by Eliza Allen Starr.

Tradition in Action

“St. Aloysius Gonzaga” by Matthew Russell.

Jesuit Institute London

Contemporary Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum, addenda

An Early Life of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Breviarium Romanum – Latin & English.

Art & Architecture

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Europeana

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

18C Saint Aloysius Gonzaga in Glory

20C Frescoes in St. Aloysius Chapel, Mangalore

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – discipline, enfants, surplis.

Lives and Legends of the English Bishops and Kings, Mediaeval Monks, and Other Later Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.

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.

Music

Parochial Hymn Book

Customs & Devotions

Prayer of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga in the Raccolta, Prayers to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga in the Raccolta

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy Volume II 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.

Litany of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Another Litany of Saint Aloysuis Gonzaga

Prayer of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga to the Blessed Virgin Mary, alternately

Prayer to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Act of Consecration to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

The Angelical Youth Saint Aloysius Of Gonzaga, Proposed As An Example Of A Holy Life, With Some Considerations, Prayers, Practices Of Virtue, And Examples, In Order To Celebrate With Advantage The Six Sundays In Honour Of This Saint

Living Latin: Recordings of Spoken Latin, Using Ecclesiastical Pronunciation

I would recommend sticking with Ecclesiastical Latin videos until one’s pronunciation is well established, whatever one’s age or level of Latin.

Silus et Maria – YouTube
The simplest videos I could find are produced by the GrecoLatinoVivo Youtube Channel from the Centro Nazionale di Studi Classici. There are, as I write, twenty-two videos in the Playlist. The most recent dates to January 2022. Because they are intended for young children, they are perfect to start.

Discord and the Golden Apple ⚖️ The Judgement of Paris, Act 1 🍏 Easy Latin story [ECCLESIASTICAL]
Who’s the fairest of them all? ⚖️ The Judgement of Paris, Act 2 🍏 Easy Latin story [ECCLESIASTICAL]
The young man’s choice ⚖️ The Judgement of Paris, Act 3 🍏 Easy Latin story [ECCLESIASTICAL]
The Christmas story told in easy Latin with illustrations [ECCLESIASTICAL]
The Easter story told in easy Latin with illustrations [ECCLESIASTICAL]
The Youtube Channel Found in Antiquity has lots of videos with simple stories told in highly comprehensible Latin, but to an older student than Silus et Maria. Currently, there are five using Ecclesiastical pronunciation, the last one published just hours before my writing.

Res Amplificatae latine enodatae – YouTube
GrecoLatinoVivo has produced another useful series of eight short videos, Res Amplificatae Latine Enodatae (Things Expanded upon Lucidly and in Latin).

LEARNING LATIN AND COOKING! – “Pasta vermiculata in iure acribus pomis holeribusque trito”
Latinitas Culinaria – Latin in the kitchen! – Papiliones in iure pistaciis aurantioque trito
Latinitas Culinaria: Bubula piperata Pinitano more (Peposo all’imprunetina)
Latinitas Culinaria #4 – Diospyros in fundamento socoladae crustulis subamaris ornatus!
Latinitas Culinaria #5 – Ovum Caroli Cracco more in caseo parmensi conflato
Latinitas Culinaria: Tomacula temulenta!
LATINITAS CULINARIA #7: Solana tuberosa in iure citrorum
And yet another series from GrecoLatinoVivo provides videos of longer duration and greater challenge, called Latinitas Culinaria, of which there are seven, and the last produced quite recently (May 2022) and hopefully only the most recent.

Ubi adolevisti? / Ubi educatus es? (Latin Listening Project – Ecclesiastical Pronunciation)
Quomodo fiat cibus e manutergio (Latin Listening Project – Ecclesiastical Pronunciation)
The aim of the Latin Listening Project is to share examples of people speaking Latin. There are seventy videos in the series, which seems to end in 2020, and two are labeled as Ecclesiastical Pronunciation, and both feature Justin Slocum Bailey (we will encounter him again when we get to how to teach Latin in Latin). There may be more, but if there are, they are not labeled.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyjr-AnQxxrvWLqgHDhe_pfPjc_NxwRJp
And the final series that I recommend from GrecoLatinoVivo features conversations in Latin, and the first of six in the playlist (most recent from 2020) is with Luke Ranieri.

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One more possibility for increasing one’s input of spoken Latin, alongside increased input of written Latin – audio recordings that have been made of Lingua latina per se illustrata, Familia Romana.

LLPSI. Familia Rōmāna. Capitulum I. Pronunzia italica / tradizionale / ecclesiastica
The Youtube Channel Via Latina is up through Chapter XII, this last from March 2022.

FAMILIA ROMANA: capitulum I (pronuntiatus italicus)
The Youtube Channel of the Schola Latina produced a recording for chapter I, but this was several years ago.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI_GGyHvC3VFtHjEg_KnWB9AW-6y4qXjz
Schola Latina has also produced five recordings from the Epitome historiae sacrae by Charles Francis L’Homond (1727-1794), which has been adapted for use in the Lingua latina per se illustrata series.

Also, the whole of the Regula Benedicti in beautiful Ecclesiastical Latin (text here)

Regula Sancti Benedicti