Modern Era

  • CatholicSaints.Info

    A site that collects information on “15,771 saints, beati, venerables and feasts“ and provides a vast amount of information for hagiographic research. Among the key benefits of this site is the extensive amount of search options: your research is not limited to the name or feast day of a saint but there are plenty of…

  • Dictionary of Catholic Theology

    A French website concerning saints linking to digitised editions and entries of the „Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique“ (grouped by type: doctors of the church, church fathers, mystics, century).

  • Documenta Catholica Omnia

    The website Documenta Catholica Omnia. Omnium paparum, conciliorum, ss. Partum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiae qui ab aevo apostolico ad usque Benedicti XVI tempora floruerunt is concerned with making Latin editions of Christian documents available online. The website is also in Latin. It provides a multitude of PDF-files and links to online versions of the respective editions.…

  • Hagiography Society

    The Hagiography Society was founded in 1990 and is the largest Anglo-American network for all historical research on saints and sanctity. The society aims to establish worldwide networking and communication. Its main focus lies on the medieval era, but does also welcome researchers from all eras and disciplines. Additionally, the websites provides information about the…

  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints‘ Lives

    The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMS) is part of the Internet History Sourcebook project, which aims at providing digital versions of public domain original source texts and can be used as an online textbook. The sub-catalogue for hagiography lists the sources by era and geographical origin (for example “Celtic Saints”, “Byzantine Saints” etc.). Additionally, they provide…

  • OKI Regensburg – Unsere Linksammlung

    A German collection of links to the homepages of Orthodox archdioceses and dioceses from around the world (sorted by country) as well as links to Catholic, Protestant and Ecumenical associations and dioceses. They also include several websites on liturgy. This site might be particularly interesting if you are looking for local contacts in specific regions.

  • 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…