David Hugh Farmer - The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
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The entries are concise accounts of the lives, cults, and artistic associations of over 1,400 saints, from the famous to the obscure, the rich to the poor, and the academic to the uneducated. From all walks of life and from all periods of history, the wide varieties of personalities and achievements of the canonized are reflected. Featuring maps of pilgrimage sights in Europe and fully updated appendices, this remains the standard reference paperback in its field.
Recently-added saints include the Martyrs of Korea, Vietnam, and the Spanish Civil War, Andrew of Crete, and Emily Rodat, a female hermit of the 7th century. There are also more Scottish and Irish saints, and ancient Welsh saints; more European saints from all centuries, as well as more saints from Eastern Europe; more recently canonized saints and female saints from the USA.
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Anal. Carm. discalceatorum | Analecta Ordinis Carmelitarum discalceatorum (1926-) |
A.N.C.L. | Ante-Nicene Christian Library (1864-) |
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Auct. Ant. | Auctores Antiquissimi |
A.V. | Authorized Version (of the Bible) |
b. | born |
B.A.R. | British Archaeological Reports (1974-) |
Baring-Gould and Fisher | S. Baring-Gould and J. Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints (4 vols., 190713) |
B.C.P. | Book of Common Prayer |
Bd. | Blessed |
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Beds. | Bedfordshire |
Berks. | Berkshire |
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Bibl. SS. | Bibliotheca Sanctorum (12 vols., Rome, 196070) |
B.L. | British Library |
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Bucks. | Buckinghamshire |
Bull. | Bulletin |
c. | circa |
c., cc. | chapter (s) |
Cambs. | Cambridgeshire |
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C.C.K. | Cornish Church Kalendar (1927) |
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d. | died |
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Dict. Sp. | Dictionnaire de Spiritualit, ed. M. Viller, S.J., and others (1937-) |
D.N.B. | Dictionary of National Biography, ed. L. Stephen and S. Lee (18851900) |
D.T.C. | Dictionnaire de Thologie Catholique, ed. A. Vacant, E. Mangenot, and . Amann (15 vols., 190350) |
D.U.J. | Durham University Journal (1876-) |
E.B.K. | English Benedictine Kalendars, ed. F. Wormald (3 vols. (H. B. S.), 193546) |
ed. | editor, edited by |
edn. | edition |
E.E.T.S. | Early English Text Society |
E.H.D. | English Historical Documents, ed. D. C. Douglas and others (1953-) |
E.H.R. | English Historical Review (1886-) |
E.O. | chos dOrient (39 vols., 18971942) |
E.R.L. | English Recusant Literature (15581640), ed. D. M. Rogers (1970-) |
Eusebius, H.E. | Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. K. Lake (2 vols., 1927) |
G.C.S. | Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (Leipzig and Berlin, 1897-) |
Glos. | Gloucestershire |
Grlach | The Kalendre of the Newe Legende of Englande, ed. M. Grlach (Heidelberg, 1994) |
G.P. | William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum, ed. N. E. S. A. Hamilton (R.S., 1870) |
G.R. | William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, ed. W. Stubbs (R.S., 18879) |
Hants | Hampshire |
H.B.S. | Henry Bradshaw Society (1891-) |
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