Modern Hagiography
Medieval Hagiography
Art & Architecture
16 March – Saint Abraham Kidunaia
Revertere Sulamitis, ut intueamur te.
Return, O Sulamitess: that we may behold thee.
Canticles 6.12
Ephraim quasi Columba seducta.
Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed.
Hosea 7.11
Meditabor ut Columba.
I will meditate like a dove.
Isaiah 38.14
Modern Hagiography
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine-Baring Gould.
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
The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts by Richard Challoner.
Great Magdalens by Hugh Francis Blunt.
Medieval Hagiography
Life of Saint Abraham by his friend, Saint Ephrem
Art & Architecture
Warburg Institute Iconographic Index
Morgan Library MS M.626, Vitae patrum, folios 90r to 96v
Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – ermites.
Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, with Other Contemporary 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.
Le tour de la France par deux enfants, chs. LXXIX to LXXXIV – Languedoc
Previous Location: Provence
Google Map (in progress)
See the Pinchon illustrated map of Languedoc.
Chapter LXXIX – By boat, the boys pass the coast of Languedoc, learn about Nîmes in the département of Gard, pass Montpellier in the département of Hérault, and arrive in Cette/Sète, also in the département of Hérault.
Videos: Nîmes et la Provence en fête from Échappées belles; Nîmes – Gard – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire, Les arènes de Nîmes – Région Languedoc Roussillon – Le Monument Préféré des Français, LE GARD – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet, Hérault – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet, all from Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter LXXX – The boys begin their journey to Bordeaux up the Canal du Midi.
Videos: Navigation sur le canal du Midi and Canal du midi, both from Échappées belles.
Chapter LXXXI – Julien reads about great men of Languedoc – Pierre-Paul Riquet, the engineer of the Canal du midi, and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, an explorer.
Videos: L’épopée du Canal du Midi from Des Racines et des Ailes; L’expédition de La Pérouse – un voyage sans retour from Gallia – notre histoire de France.
Chapter LXXXII – Julien softens the heart of the patron of the boat.
Chapter LXXXIII – The boat passes stops in Béziers still in Hérault, collects honey from Narbonne, stops in Carcassone, in the département of Aude, where the boys glimpse the Pyrénées, including the peak of the Canigou, and learn about the Gave de Pau, and at last arrive in Toulouse.
Videos: Carcassonne – Aude – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet and La cité médiévale de Carcassonne – Région Languedoc Roussillon – Le Monument Préféré des Français, and L’abbaye Saint-Martin Canigou – Région Languedoc Roussillon – Le Monument Préféré des Français all from Le Pays préféré des Français. Narbonne, la cité du vent et du soleil from Météo à la carte.
Chapter LXXXIV – The boys see Toulouse, département of Haute-Garonne, including the Moulins de Bazacle. Julien reads about sixteenth-century legal expert, Jacques Cujas.
Videos: Week-end en Midi toulousain from Échappées belles and Haute Garonne – Toulouse – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire from Le Pays préféré des Français.
Video on Languedoc, in general: Languedoc-Roussillon from Echappées belles.
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Longfellow’s Poem of Places
Languedoc
Carcassone in Aude
Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893)
Aigues-Mortes in Gard
Aigue-Morte by Jean Reboul (1796–1864)
Roussillon
Argelès-sur-Mer in Pyrénées-Orientales
Above, upon the Mountains by Cyprien Despourrins (1698–1759)
Cette/Sète in Hérault
A Southern Night by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
Nihil sub sole novum 