Scene from the lives of Saints Cosmas and Saints Damian.

Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.

Saint Godehardus of Hildesheim: his sermons force the dead to leave their graves, resulting in reformation among the living. Engraving by R. Sadeler after J.M. Kager.

St Ignatius Loyola wearing leg splints, by De Favray.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: he kneels before a vision of the Virgin and Christ Child. Engraving.

Saint Roch dispensing charity. Etching after Annibale Carracci.

Saint Lucy and Saint Agatha. Oil painting.

Saint Blaise. Coloured lithograph (?).

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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

London, city of lost hospitals

In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration

Bishop Hay's new edition of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

Remarks on Bower's Lives of the popes, in a series of letters. By the late Reverend Alban Butler, Author of the Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and principal Saints of the Church.

A chronological index for the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the saints: Containing The Names Of The Popes; Roman Emperors; Emperors of the East and West; Kings of England and of France; Martyrs, Holy Fathers, and other Ecclesiastical Writers; Saints of England, Scotland, Ireland, and of other Countries,-Who are mentioned in Mr Butler's Lives of the Saints, or who have existed since the commencement of the Christian Aera to the present Time:-The Principal Heretics:-The General Councils, Remarkable Events, Persecutions, &c. that have taken place during the above period; including also the Doctrine and Discipline; Religious Institutes, and other Miscellaneous Subjects which occur in the history of each Age of the Church.

Saints and animals in the Middle Ages / Dominic Alexander.

Popery against Christianity: or, an historical account of the present state of Rome; the election of their Popes, and the proceedings of the Jesuits in China; in England, and other Protestant countries. With an appendix. Containing The Lives and Canonization of the last four Saints; and several Decrees of Popes, contradicting one another. By Parenthenopeus Hereticus.

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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

London, city of lost hospitals

In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration

Images

Catalogue

Bishop Hay's new edition of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

Remarks on Bower's Lives of the popes, in a series of letters. By the late Reverend Alban Butler, Author of the Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and principal Saints of the Church.

Saints and animals in the Middle Ages / Dominic Alexander.

Wellcome uses cookies.

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Stories

Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

London, city of lost hospitals

In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears

Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration

Images

Catalogue

Bishop Hay's new edition of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.

Remarks on Bower's Lives of the popes, in a series of letters. By the late Reverend Alban Butler, Author of the Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and principal Saints of the Church.

Saints and animals in the Middle Ages / Dominic Alexander.