19 April – Blessed James Duckett

Early Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

A Menology of England and Wales

Memoirs of Missionary Priests And Other Catholics Of Both Sexes That Have Suffered Death In England On Religious Accounts From The Year 1577 To 1684 by Richard Challoner.

Acts of English Martyrs Hitherto Unpublished

Mementoes of the English Martyrs and Confessors for Every Day in the Year

18 April – Saint Herluka of Bernried & Saint Wikpert of Augsberg

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Gustate, et videte, quam suavis est Dominus.
O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet.
Psalm 33.9
Ivi in spiritu in templum
He went by the Spirit into the temple.
Luke 2.27
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Vidimus eum, et non erat aspectus, et desideravimus eum.
We have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him.
Isaiah 53.2
Ecce homo.
Non est species ei, neque decor.
There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness.
Isaiah 53.2
Ego autem sum vermis.
But I am a worm.
Psalm 21.7

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca SanctorumSaint Wikpert & Saint Herluka.

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Sign in Bernried

German Wikipedia Article on Saint Herluka

German Wikipedia Article on Saint Wikpert

Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon, Band 2. Augsburg 1861, S. 664-666 – Saint Herluka

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Vita beatae Herlucae

Art & Architecture

Wikimedia Commons – Saint Wikterp & Saint Herluka.

Saints and their Emblems

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

18 April 1775 – The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Portrait by John Singleton Copley

Paul Revere’s deposition, fair copy, circa 1775

Letter from Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798

Chapter III, “The Midnight Ride of April 18, 1775” in The True Story of Paul Revere, His Midnight Ride, His Arrest and Court-Martial, His Useful Public Services by Charles Ferris Gettemy (1906).

Recreate the Ride

Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories by James Baldwin.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Landlord’s Tale”

Atlantic Monthly January 1861

The Landlord’s Tale” in Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Audio Recording

“What’s in a Name?” by Helen F. More about William Dawes, who also rode that night.

A broadside delivered by Israel Bissell on his ride to spread the news of the British attack and two poems written in the 1950s about his ride.

Music

Song “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Webb Miller

“Me and Paul Revere” by Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin

Art

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Grant Wood (1931).

Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin (1940).

Other Rides of the Revolution

James Jack, who carried the Mecklenburg Declaration, made in response to news of Lexington and Concord, to the Continental Congress – read and listen to the “Meck Dec.”

“Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine”

“The Ride of Tench Tilghman” by Clinton Scollard.

Jack Jouett of Albemarle, the Paul Revere of Virginia (1922), “Jack Jouett’s Ride” (1961), and a newer song, “Jack Jouett’s Ride” (lyrics)

“How Once Upon a Time Caesar Rodney Rode for Freedom” by Katharine Pyle.

And find even more names in this essay on “Heroic horsemen … and women.”

Lesson Plans

Mapping Paul Revere’s Ride

Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution

Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere’s Ride in History and Literature

The Birth of An American Hero in “Paul Revere’s Ride”