Saints & Hagiography

General (Generalità)

• Acts of the Martyrs (ATTI DEI MARTIRI) Vol. II, p. 216
  ACTS OF THE MARTYRS. - I. ACTS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN MARTYRS. - Under the name of acts of the martyrs (acta martyrum) we include all that…
• Ampulla of Blood (AMPOLLA DI SANGUE) Vol. I, p. 684
  AMPULLA OF BLOOD. - With this expression and other similar ones, from the beginning of the 17th century, people have customarily designated…
• Confessor (CONFESSORE (CONFESSOR)) Vol. IV, p. 161
  CONFESSOR. - From the Latin confessor (from confiteri = to declare openly, a term proper to Christian Latin; Greek ὁμολογητής) is the title…
• Corpi Santi Vol. IV, p. 343
  CORPI SANTI. - By these are meant those bodies that were taken from ancient cemeteries and placed in veneration as the bodies of previously…
• Depositio Episcoporum Vol. IV, p. 840
  DEPOSITIO EPISCOPORUM. - It is a liturgical document included in the so-called Chronographer of the year 354 (v.). It contains a list of…
• Depositio Martyrum Vol. IV, p. 840
  DEPOSITIO MARTYRUM. - Like the preceding document, it is included in the so-called Chronographer of the year 354 (v.). It comprises a list…
• Hagiography (AGIOGRAFIA) Vol. I, p. 287
  HAGIOGRAPHY. - From the Greek ἅγιος "saint" and γράφω "I write," also called hagiology, it is the science that deals with the lives and…
• Martyrdom and Martyr (MARTIRIO E MARTIRE) Vol. VIII, p. 165
  MARTYRDOM AND MARTYR. - From the Greek μάρτυρ, witness; in Christian language it is the person who bore witness to Christ with his blood.…
• Martyrology (MARTIROLOGIO) Vol. VIII, p. 170
  MARTYROLOGY. - A catalogue of the martyrs and saints arranged according to the order of their feasts. SUMMARY: I. Concept. - II. Primitive…
• Saint (SANTO) Vol. X, p. 1111
  SAINT. - From the Latin sanctus (sancire), its etymological meaning is "inviolable." Before the word took on its present meaning — namely,…
• Veronica Vol. XII, p. 832
  VERONICA. - Name given, by metonymy, to the icon with the "Holy Face" of Christ, preserved among the major relics of the basilica of St.…
• Vindicatio Vol. XII, p. 917
  VINDICATIO. - Term suggested by a text of St. Optatus of Milevis (De schismate Donatistarum, I, 16: PL 11, 917), by which it was intended…