15 May – Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
tableau : Saint Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle
SINITE PARVULOS VENIRE AD ME TALIVM EST ENIM REGNUM COELORUM. Matt. C.19. Inscriptions and textual elements: LE PORTRAIT TIRÉ APRÈS LA MORT / DE Mre. JEAN BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE / Prêtre, Docteur en Théologie / ancien Chanoine de Notre-Dame de Reims. / Instituteur des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes. / Mort à Rouen le Vendredi Saint / de l’année 1719. Agé de 68 ans.
Retable de saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum (7 April)

Roman Martyrology

Character Calendar 

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

The Story of Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Tradition in Action

Breviarium Romanum – Latin.

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

Writings of Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

Downloadable Library of Writings

Art & Architecture

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Europeana

Vatican Founder Statue

In the Footsteps of De La Salle

Music

“Glorious Patron”

Customs & Devotions

Prayer to Saint John de la Salle

15 May – Saint Dionysia, Saint Peter, Saint Andrew, and Saint Paul

Martyre de sainte Denise de Lampsaque (France, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 51 f.16v)
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Roman Martyrology

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

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.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

La vie des saints

Victories of the Martyrs by Saint Alphonsus Liguori (Dionysia, Andrew, and Paul).

Victories of the Martyrs by Saint Alphonsus Liguori (Peter).

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Art & Architecture

Portail Biblissima

15 May – Saint Dymphna

van H. Dimpna van Geel
Le martyre de sainte Dymphne et de saint Gerbert by Gérard Seghers (color photograph)
Onthoofding van de H. Dimpna en Gerebernus
Ste. Dimpre, vierge et martyre (St. Dymphna, Virgin and Martyr), May 15th, from Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year), Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy), Etching; second state of two (Lieure)
Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L’Année
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Qui amat Patrem – plus quam me – non est me dignus.
He that loveth father – more than me, is not worthy of me.
Matthew 10.37
Pater meus Dux virginitatis meae tu es.
Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity.
  Jeremias 3.4
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Saint Dymphna: Patron of the Nervous and Emotionally Disturbed

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

BALaT

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

Sint-Dimpnakerk in Geel, retable, Reliekschrijn van de heilige Dimpna

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index
Saints and their Attributes

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

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.

Customs & Devotions

Nine Days Prayer to Saint Dymphna

Saint Dymphna Devotion

Devotion in Honor of Saint Dymphna