Saints Resources, notes

[bunnyjadwiga]

Was looking up information for a patron today and realized I had no handy reference to websites and reference books on Saints. So here are my notes:

Catholic Online Saints & Angels: http://www.catholic.org/saints/
Patron Saints Index: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ [out of date-- pre-vatican II]

From Internet Public Library listings:
http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm

For Medieval Saints, there's the Internet Medieval Sourcebook section on Saint's Lives:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html

Oxford Dictionary of Saints [at Drew, 270.0922 F233o 2003, Cornell Room]

EDIT: My boss points out that Butler's Lives of the Saints is the best resource we have in print to start with. [At Drew, in the Cornell Room, 235.2 B985ℓ 1995]

Fox's Book of Martyrs

Dumberton Oaks Hagiography database (8th to 10th century, Byzantine) http://www.doaks.org/hagio.html

I'm very fond of:
Saints Preserve Us! : Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need by Sean Kelly
and
Heaven Help Us : The Worrier's Guide to the Patron Saints by Clare La Plante
but both of these are more about folklore than hagiography.

Comments

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

Fox's Book of Martyrs

The complete text may be found online here: http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

well this seems to be an "expanded" edition "edited" by a William Byron Forbush as it includes the Quakers, John Bunyan, John Wesley and American missionaries. A further look around online shows that this particular edition seems to be the only one available.

[fuzzybutchkins.livejournal.com]

sweet, i've been looking for stuff like this. though not all that hard, i will admit.

Fordham. Woo!