The Catalogue of the Saints of Italy, Distributed through Twelve Months

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Original title: Catalogus Sanctorum Italiae in menses duodecim distributus A Latin hagiographical catalogue arranging the saints and local cults of Italy across the twelve months of the liturgical year. Under each day it prints an abbreviated life or passion drawn, as the title announces, from the monuments of particular churches — diocesan registers, proper offices, legendaries, epitaphs, inscriptions and local chronicles — followed by a separately headed ANNOTATIO, a brief critical note testing the received account against datable external evidence such as imperial reigns, councils, papal pontificates, epigraphy and inspected documents, as well as against the internal coherence of the acts. The notes label dossiers as wanting, corrupt, in need of correction or of suspect faith, distinguish natalis from depositio, translatio and consecratio, separate homonymous saints and merge duplicated ones, and record where the compiler's own inquiries failed; unverifiable material is nevertheless printed under warning, and criticism is expressly suspended where the authority of the Church in the Breviary compels. An alphabetical index of saints' names marks whether a figure appears in the Roman Martyrology and records where a body is preserved or venerated. The volume closes with a supplement of lives that reached the compiler too late to be placed at their proper days. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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