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Saints of the Church
This section covers the various Saints of the Church. Here you will find information on how the Catholic Church chooses Saints and biographical information on individual saints.
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 | The Legends of the Saints
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Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography. Full text of 1907 edition. 517K. Thoughtful, interesting consideration of the principles and process of medieval hagiography.
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| Saints Lives
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Paul Halsall, Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints Lives. [96K text, 20K graphics]. New Testament era through the Middle Ages, and helpful links for hagiography.
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| Patron Saints Index
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Terry Jones, Patron Saints Index. Brief profiles of 5000 saints and beati, often with links to other sources of information, and sometimes excerpts from the saints writings.
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| The Military Martyrs
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David Woods, The Military Martyrs. If you have any interest in the soldier saints of late antiquity and the early medieval period, this is a must see site. English translations of the Latin and Greek primary sources, bibliographies. Woods doctoral thesis was on the Christianization of the fourth-century Roman army.
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