Liberasti me Domine de manibus quaerentium animam meam.
Thou hast delivered me Lord out of the hands of them that sought my life.
Ecclesiasticus 51.4-5
Misit Dominus angelum suum, et eripuit me.
The Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me.
Acts 12.11
Tela aranearum fiducia ei.
His trust shall be like the spider’s web.
Job 8.14
Modern Hagiography
Maetyrologium Romanum – 14 January & 15 November
Roman Martyrology – 14 January & 15 November
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.
Miniatures Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year
“The Ballad of Saint Felix” in The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown.
Anecdotes and Incidents: Ecclesiastical and Religious
The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
Contemporary & Medieval Hagiography
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database
Paulinus of Nola wrote a poem for the feast day of Saint Felix, every year for at least fourteen years. Called Natilicia, within his corpus, they are numbers 12 to 16, 18 to 21, 23, and 26 to 29 (register to borrow for free). Poem 16 tells the story of the spider (as does “The Ballad of Saint Felix”).
The Golden Legend (and illustrations)
Art & Architecture
Catalogo generale dei beni culturali
POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.
The complex at Nola, today Cimitile, has mosaics and frescoes and carvings from several periods of the early middle ages. To get a sample, look through this photo album. And this one.
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
