22 March – Saint Catherine of Vadstena

Annus Dierus Sanctorum
The whole world is seated in wickedness.
1 John 5.19
Evil is seen out of the north.
Jeremiah 6.1

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

La vie des 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.

Great Wives and Mothers by Hugh Francis Blunt.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplementum

Acta Sanctorum

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Europeana

Medeltidens bildvarld (Translate page to English, then search “Katarina av Vadstena” in “Motive”)

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon, 2016 Fröjmark

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

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – apparitions, cerf, groupe, larmes, lis, Monstrance.

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.

Devotions

Prayer to Saint Catherine in the Raccolta

22 March – Saint Basil of Ancyra

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.

Victories of the Martyrs by Saint Alphonsus Liguori.

Medieval Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

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

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

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

21 March – Saint Benedict of Nursia

Monreale
Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Quid convenit vobis tentare Spiritum Domini.
Acts 5.9
Depone, quod geris, tuum non est.

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum11 July & 21 March.

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 

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

An Alphabet of Saints by Robert Hugh Benson, Reginald Balfour, and Charles Ritchie.

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

Stories of the Saints for Children.  The Black Letter Saints by Mrs. Molesworth.

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

Patron Saints by Eliza Allen Starr.

Short Instructive Sketches from the Lives of the Saints (and more stories in the following two entries).

Saints of Italy by Ella Noyes. 

In God’s Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children by Amy Steedman. 

Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages by George Hodges.

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Pillars of the Church

Tradition in Action

“Saint Benedict” by Frederick William Faber.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The Life of Saint Benedict by Pope Gregory the Great (Book II of his Dialogues, alternately)

The Little Flowers of Saint Benet Gathered from the Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Breviarium Romanum Latin & English.

Writings of Saint Benedict

Documenta Catholica Omnia

The Rule of Benedict (alternately, with commentary, arranged for daily meditation)

Life and Rule combined

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Vatican Colonnade

Vatican Founder Statue

The Church of Saint Benedict in Mals (Italy)

In the Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold

14C Saint Benedict Tempted in the Wilderness

Scenes from the Life of St Benedict, fresco cycle in the Sacristy of San Miniato al Monte, Florence (1388) by Spinello Aretino

15C Charity of Saint Benedict

15C Saint Benedict in Ecstasy by Fra Angelico

15C Series of Four Scenes from the Life

16C Saint Benedict amidst the Doctors

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index

Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – banderole, bouche, buisson, coupe, chiffre, clochette, colombe, corbeau, crible, discipline, echelle ou escalier, ermite, globe enflammé, médaille, oiseau, prince.

Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts by Mrs. Jameson.

A Handbook of Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints as Illustrated in Art by Clara Erskine Clement.

A Garner of Saints: Being a Collection of the Legends and Emblems Usually Represented in Art by Allen Hinds.

Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, with Other Contemporary Saints by Mrs. Arthur Bell.

The Saints in Art with Their Attributes and Symbols, Alphabetically Arranged by Margaret E. Tabor.

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.

Sacred Symbols in Art by Elizabeth Edwards Goldsmith.

A treatise On the Medal or Cross of Saint Benedict by Dom Prosper Gueranger.

Music

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, In honorem Sti Benediti, “Exultet omnium” H.347

Parochial Hymn Book

Devotions

Feast Day Cookout

Prayers for a Novena to Saint Benedict

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy 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.