Information on various soldier saints. Includes early martyrologies translated into English.
Daily messages about the first millennium Saints of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, England, Cornwall, and Isle of Man.
Ancient, Byzantine, and medieval hagiographic original texts, in translation and otherwise, with basic data on the cult of saints, emphasis on historical understanding of the texts. [Note: the word "cult" is a technical term referring to the religious practices surrounding devotion to saints.]
The legenda are stories about the saints, and often include a mix of historical fact and unhistorical embellishments.
A very popular medieval book of saints' lives, written between 1260 and 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine.
Full text of the 1907 edition of a book by Hippolyte Delehaye, about medieval hagiography. 517K
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