8 October – Saint Thaïs

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Sanctorale Catholicum Dictionary of Saintly Women Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts by Richard Challoner. Great Magdalens by Hugh Francis Blunt. Medieval Hagiography BHL, Supplement Acta Sanctorum The Cult of Saints in Late AntiquityContinue reading “8 October – Saint Thaïs”

8 October – Saint Pelagia of Antioch (Penitent)

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum (Saint Pelagia of Jerusalem) Martyrologium Romanum (identified as the Saint Pelagia of Antioch who was a Virgin and Martyr) Roman Martyrology Sanctorale Catholicum Dictionary of Saintly Women Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler. Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger. Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. La vie desContinue reading “8 October – Saint Pelagia of Antioch (Penitent)”

11 September – Saint Theodora of Alexandria

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Roman Martyrology Dictionary of Saintly Women Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould. Medieval Hagiography BHL, Supplement  Acta Sanctorum The Golden Legend (and illustrations) Art & Architecture Index of Medieval Art Warburg Institute Iconographic Database  A Garner of Saints: Being a Collection of the Legends and Emblems Usually Represented in ArtContinue reading “11 September – Saint Theodora of Alexandria”