28 December – Saint Gaspare del Bufalo

Modern Hagiography

Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year by Henry Sebastian Bowden.

The Holiness of the Church in the Nineteenth Century: Saintly Men and Women of Our Own Times by Constantine Kempf.

Writings by the Saint

The Letters of Saint Gaspar del Bufalo

Art & Architecture

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

28 December – The Holy Innocents

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Effuderunt sanguinem sanctorum tuorum, velut aquam.
They have poured out the blood of your saints, as water
> Psalm 78.3

Modern Hagioraphy

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

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.

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays

Il libro d’oro

The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Tradition in Action

“Hymn for the Feast of the Holy Innocents” by Aubrey Thomas de Vere.

Biblical Texts

Matthew 2

Medieval Hagiography

BHL

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

In the Codex Egberti, a tenth-century Ottonian manuscript.

By Giotto, in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Reliquary in Basel

By Jacopo Tintoretto.

Multiple paintings by Pieter Breughel the Elder (a great interactive feature same painting without the interactive featureanother version)

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon, 2016 Plumb

Sacred and Legendary Art volume II by Mrs. Jameson.

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

The Gospel in Art by Albert Bailey.

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Two Hymns by Prudentius to the Holy Innocents

Hymn to the Holy Innocents in the Parochial Hymn Book

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Caedes sanctorum innocentium, H.411 (1683–84)

The Coventry Carol (notesmore background)

Other hymns for the Innocenti

A Dutch carol, “Kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen” (backgroundvideo).

Songs for Catholic Schools

Devotions & Celebrations

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.

Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated by Alexander H. Grant.

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.

27 December – Saint John the Evangelist

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Habebat ovem unam parvulum quae de pane illius comedens et de calice bibens et in sinu illius Dormiens.
He had one little ewe lamb, which eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom.
2 Kings 12.3

Modern Hagiography

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.

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 by Henry Sebastian Bowden.

Stories of the Saints Third Series by Mary Seymour.

Little Lives of the Great Saints by John O’Kane Murray. 

Anecdotes and Incidents: Ecclesiastical and Religious

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.

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays

The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Evenings with the Saints

Tradition in Action

Biblical & Apocryphal Texts

Matthew 10:1-4, Mark 3:14-19, Luke 6:13-16, Acts 1:13.

According to tradition, Apostle, Evangelist, and visionary of the Apocalypse.

Apocryphal Acts of John

Another Apocryphal Acts of John

An Account of the Death of John

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Evangelist Symbol of Saint John in the 7th century Echternach Gospels.

Evangelist Portrait of Saint John in the 9th century Ebbo Gospels.

Menologion of Basil II (about)

El Greco, The Vision of Saint John in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Guide to Christian Iconography: Images, Symbols, and Texts

Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon, Plumb 2016.

Saints and their Attributes

Sacred and Legendary Art volume I 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 Evangelists, Apostles, and Other Early 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.

Sacred Symbols in Art by Elizabeth Edwards Goldsmith.

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

Hymns to Saint John the Evangelist (although finding recordings of these songs is rather challenging.

Hymns to Saint John the Divine

Hymns to Saint John the Eveangelist in the Parochial Hymn Book

Hymn to Saint John the Evangelist by Frederick William Faber (also here)

“Saint of the Sacred Heart”

Devotions

Prayer to Saint John the Evangelist in the Raccolta

Another Prayer to Saint John the Evangelist

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon.

Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

The Church Seasons Historically and Poetically Illustrated by Alexander H. Grant.

Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.

Heortology: A History Of The Christian Festivals From Their Origin To The Present Day by Heinrich Kellner.