Perhaps the gold-standard of Saints’ Lives in English—and first collated by the inimitable Fr. Alban Butler in 18th-century England (a daring move for a Catholic priest), its first edition ...

Countless sources, from Dictionary of Saints by John Delaney and Butler’s Lives of the Saints to CatholicSaints.info, Wikipedia and elsewhere at the Register, offer inspiring tales of ...

Basic references are “The Oxford Dictionary of Saints,” by David Hugh Farmer, and “Dictionary of Saints,” by John J. Delaney (not the Ateneo Jesuit). The most historical are Jacobus de Voragine’s “The ...