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  • Peregrinations

    Peregrinations. Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture is a journal focusing on the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. The journal was founded in 2002, is published periodically and is especially concerned with medieval visual culture. Many articles explore the works of art created for the cults of saints who were venerated in various…

  • Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs

    The French website Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs aims at compiling information on all Greek texts up to the 16th century based on archive and library catalogues. Pinakes has about 200000 entries based on 13000 texts of which there are a total of 40000 manuscripts. There are two search options: you can either search…

  • Roger Pearse Webblog

    A blog focused on early Christianity and the Ancient World. Roger Pearse provides English translations of the Early Church Fathers online and blogs about the translation process. He does also list links to useful resources (such as associations, online editions, other blogs and dictionaries) and has a very helpful list on the digitised volumes of…

  • Saint Pachomius Library

    The Saint Pachomius Library is an encyclopaedia of Orthodox Christianity established in 1994. The site accommodates a vast amount of entries on several topics related to Orthodox Christianity (e.g. information on geographical region, biblical figures and saints). Unfortunately, the site does not offer any search functions but can only be navigated with the help of…

  • Saint Patrick’s Confessio

    This website is the first point of contact for information on the Confessio of St. Patrick. It was created as part of the HyperStack Project, a project initiated by the Royal Irish Academy and several other Irish institutions. Their aim is to provide information on the Irish patron St. Patrick by providing access to his…

  • Saints and Geography

    The ongoing project Saints and Geography is concerned with the veneration of saints and provides an interactive database and spreadsheets. For now, the data is limited to the northern diocese of Iceland (Hólar) but they aim at also providing data for Skálholt as well as Bath and Wells. The goal is that users will be…

  • Société des Bollandistes

    The Bollandists are an association of scholars who have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints since the early seventeenth century. They publish the Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic critical edition of the lives of saints. Also, they publish the Analecta Bollandiana, a journal on critical hagiography, twice a year. On their website, they link…

  • Sources Chrétiennes

    This site, which is connected to the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, offers a database which is useful to find specific contributions from the Sources Chrétiennes. In the section of “Auteur anciens” and the following “Accès par pôle”, you will find the section “Hagiographie (monde grec)”, which lists a few hagiographers. There is only little biographical…

  • Studies on Christian Hagiography

    Studies on Christian Hagiography is a blog dedicated to the study of Christian hagiography. It mainly collects conference programmes, calls for papers and links to sources on Christian hagiography up to 2016. The entries are grouped by topics: the column on the right lists a call for participation, the aforementioned topics and the blog’s archive.…

  • Syriaca – Qadishe and BHSE

    The website Syriaca combines five databases, two on Syrian saints, both of which are open access. The database Qadishe, the Syriac term for „saint“, is a personal database of Syrian saints and authors who have written hagiographic texts about Syrian saints or about Syrian authors of hagiographic texts in general. The database offer several search…