16 April – Saint Joachim Piccolomini

Cerchia di Lorenzetti P. sec. XIV, Beato Gioacchino Piccolomini
Manetti R. (1633), Miracolo del cero del Beato Gioacchino Piccolomini
Libro del Compendio della vita dei santi
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Et filius Ancillae tuae.
And the son of your Handmaid.
Psalm 115.16
Factus est ei Ioackim Servus.
Joakim became his servant.
4 Kings 24.1
Ego servus tuus.
I am thy servant.
Psalm 115.16
Ex virtute pendebat.
It did proceed from virtue.
Judith 10.4
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

The Fairest Flower of Paradise: Considerations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, Enriched with Examples Drawn from the Lives of the Saints by Alexis Lepicier.

Medieval Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Warbug Institute Iconographic Database

Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – cierge, malades.

16 April – Saint Engratia & the Eighteen Martyrs of Zaragoza

Dioclétien et la décollation de sainte Engrace (France, Amiens. Bibliothèques d’Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108 f. 239)
Saint Engracia by Bartolome Bermejo (ca. 1474)
Altar at l’église Sainte-Engrâce à Sainte-Engrâce
The Book of Saints
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

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.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL – Engratia & 18 Martyrs, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum – Engratia, Eighteen Martyrs including Faustus

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Prudentius, Liber peristephanon

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Wikimedia Commons

Église de Sainte-Engrâce

The Church of Saint Engracia in Lisbon, Portugal

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

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – Saint Engratia: clou, couronne, epée; Saint Lambert: tete coupee.

16 April – Saint Benedict Joseph Labre

Micocca Giovanni – Bombelli Pietro Leone (1784), San Benedetto Giuseppe Labre
Ambito romagnolo (1882), Donna allettata invoca il beato Labre
Borghesi F. sec. XIX, Donna a letto ammalata
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Lives of the Saints for Children by Theodor Berthold.

Stories of Holy Lives by Mary Seymour.

Light from the Lowly volume I by Francis Butina.

Legends of the Blessed Sacrament Gathered from the History of the Church and the Lives of the Saints by Emily Mary Shapcote.

The Fairest Flower of Paradise: Considerations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, Enriched with Examples Drawn from the Lives of the Saints by Alexis M. Lepicier.

Saints of 1881

“Saint Benedict Joseph Labre”, Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald.

Early Modern Hagiography

The earliest biography, translated into English, including accounts of miracles at the end, published two years after his death.

Writings by Saint Benedict

Some sayings of the saint

His morning prayer

Art & Architecture

BeWeB, especially Ex votos

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Europeana

Chapel in Santa Maria ai Monti in Rome

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

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

Customs & Devotions

Prayer to Saint Benedict in the Raccolta