25 February – Saint Tarasius

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Roman Martyrology

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.

Tradition in Action

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

Acta Sanctorum

Writings of Saint Tarasius

Tarasius, as Patriarch of Constantinople, presided over the Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 787, restoring the veneration of icons.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Portail Biblissima

Chapel of Saint Tarasius in San Zaccaria in Venice

Guillaume de Tyr, Historia, Paris, BN, MS Français 2634, f. 26r, Concile de Nicée (787) (no image, yet)

Medieval Religion Listserv

Saints and their Attributes
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – mendiants, empereur.

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.

25 February / 1 May – Saint Walburga

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Acceperunt oleum in vasis suis cum Lampadibus.
They took oil in their vessels with the lamps.
Matthew 25.4
Date nobis de oleo vestro.
Give us of your oil.
Matthew 25.8
Oleum in ossibus ejus.
Oil in his bones.
Psalm 108.18
Thesaurus desiderabilis oleum in habitaculo iusti
There is a treasure to be desired, oil in the dwelling of the just.
Proverbs 21.20
a fructu – olei sui multiplicati sunt.
By the fruit – of their oil, they are multiplied.
Psalm 4.8

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

A Menology of England and Wales

Dictionary of Saintly Women

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Stories of the Saints for Children Second Series by Mary Seymour.

Il libro d’oro

Virgin Saints of the Benedictine Order

Lives and Legends of English Saints by L.M. Shortt.

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum

Writings by Saint Walburga

Saint Walburga wrote the account of her brother, Willibald’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Portail Biblissima

BALaT

Europeana

Wikimedia Commons

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

12C Antependium

16C Print, 18C Painting

With Saint Amand by Rubens, see also

Abtei St. Walburg in Eichstätt, “The “Holy Oil” of Saint Walburga”, Italian painting

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

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – baume, epi, fiole.

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.

Lives and Legends of the English Bishops and Kings, Mediaeval Monks, and Other Later 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.

Music

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Devotions

Walpurgisnacht is observed on the 30th of April.

Feast Day Cookbook

25 February – Blessed Sebastián de Aparicio

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum

Light from the Lowly volume I by Francis Butina.

Art & Architecture

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali
– for the copiously and beautifully illustrated Storie della vita del Beato Sebastiano di Aparicio, illustrated by Bombelli Pietro Leone