Celebrating the Saints: Resources

On this page, you will find links to helpful resources that come from the course materials.

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Images of the saints

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Abraham#mediaviewer/File:Patriarch_Abraham.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Patriarchs_in_Paradise_(18th_c.,_Russia,_priv._coll.).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_and_Isaac_before_the_Sacrifice,_Jan_Victors,_1642.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_(Israel).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_wrestling_the_angel_2.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prospero_Fontana_(circle)_Isaac_and_Jacob.jpg

Images of the Hospitality of Abraham

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrej_Rubl%C3%ABv_001.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospitality_of_Abraham#mediaviewer/File:Stained_Glass_Window,_Holy_Trinity_Cathedral,_Addis_Ababa,_Ethiopia_(3434778977).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospitality_of_Abraham#mediaviewer/File:Russian_-_Hospitality_of_Abraham_-_Walters_371185.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospitality_of_Abraham#mediaviewer/File:Master_of_James_IV_of_Scotland_(Flemish,_before_1465_-_about_1541)_-_Abraham_and_the_Three_Angels_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hospitality_of_Abraham#mediaviewer/File:Murillo_Abraham.jpg

Images of the Harrowing of Hell

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resurrection_(24).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Har_hell_Hermitage2.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Harrowing_of_Hell#mediaviewer/File:The_Descent_into_Hell_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Harrowing_of_Hell#mediaviewer/File:Descent_of_Christ_to_Limbo_WGA.jpg

 

Mary, the Mother of Jesus (Blessed Virgin Mary)

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fra_Angelico_069.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelo%27s_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virgin_Mary_and_Jesus_(old_Persian_miniature).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethiopian_Virgin_Mary_and_Jesus_(2868581353).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matteo_di_Giovanni_-_Madonna_with_Child_and_Angels_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:But_Mary_kept_all_these_things_and_pondered_them_in_her_heart_Alice_Havers.jpg

Resources

• Mary through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan.
• Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin by Rowan Williams.

Mary Magdalene

Images

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/IVANOV_YAV_HRISTA_MARI1.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene#mediaviewer/File:Tizian_009.jpg
• http://www.lentmadness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mmag32.jpg
• http://www.lentmadness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/GHW_MM_1.jpg

Resources

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle by Karen King. Polebridge, 2003. 

Peter and Paul

Images of the saints

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1627_Rembrandt_Paulus_im_Gef%C3%A4ngnis_Staatsgalerie_Stuttgart_anagoria.JPG
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caravaggio-Crucifixion_of_Peter.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conversion_on_the_Way_to_Damascus-Caravaggio_(c.1600-1).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Legnica,_katedra_ko%C5%9Bcio%C5%82a_rzymskokatolickiego,_patroni_diecezji_%C5%9B%C5%9B._Piotr_i_Pawe%C5%82.JPG

Resources

• Paul: An Introduction to His Thought by C. K. Barrett. SPCK, 1994.
• Peter in the New Testament: A Collaborative Assessment by Protestant and Roman Catholic Scholars by Raymond Brown, et al., ed. Wipf & Stock, 2002.

Luke the Evangelist

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist#mediaviewer/File:Saint_Luke.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint_Luke_on_stained_glass_windows#mediaviewer/File:Mehrerau_Collegiumskapelle_Fenster_R00c_Lucas.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_Luke_the_Evangelist#mediaviewer/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Saint_Luke_(Saint_Luc)_-_James_Tissot.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist#mediaviewer/File:Evangelist_Luka_pishustchiy_ikonu.jpg

Perpetua and Friends

Images

• http://swordsoftruth.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/st-perpetua-felicitas.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perpetua,_Felicitas,_Revocatus,_Saturninus_and_Secundulus_%28Menologion_of_Basil_II%29.jpg

Resources on Mariam Yehya Ibrahim of Sudan

• http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/24/world/europe/italy-sudan-christian-woman/
• http://time.com/100815/sudanese-woman-death-marrying-christian/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariam_Yahia_Ibrahim_Ishag

Resources

• “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas,” in After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity by Bart Ehrman, trans. Oxford University Press, 1999.
• The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Candida Moss. HarperOne, 2013.

John Chrysostom

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:John_Chrysostom#mediaviewer/File:Johannes_Chrysostomos_Mosaik.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:John_Chrysostom#mediaviewer/File:St._John_Chrysostom,_lower_register_of_sanctuary.jpg
• http://commons.orthodoxwiki.org/File:John_Chrysostom_enthroned.jpg

Resources

• “John Chrysostom,” in Fathers of the Church, The: A Comprehensive Introduction by Hubertus Drobner. Baker Academic, 2007.
• “John Chrysostom, the Cappadocians, and Friends,” in Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society by Susan R. Holman, ed. Baker Academic, 2008.

Brigid and Patrick

Images of the saints

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint_Patrick_on_stained_glass_windows#mediaviewer/File:Carlow_Cathedral_St_Patrick_Preaching_to_the_Kings_2009_09_03.jpg
• http://christchurchwindsor.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lombardschool_patrick.jpg
• http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ebqpo9VAmqc/UUXGH8QgKFI/AAAAAAAAFDM/WdWR1v16q2Q/s1600/The+Baptism+of+the+King+of+Cashel+by+Saint+Patrick.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brigid_of_Kildare#mediaviewer/File:Stbrigid.jpg
• http://www.briged.org.au/_lib/img/brigid-of-kildare-icon.jpg

Resources

• Every Earthly Blessing: Rediscovering the Celtic Tradition, by Esther de Waal
• St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography by Phillip Freeman
• How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill

Augustine of Hippo

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#mediaviewer/File:Augustine_Lateran.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#mediaviewer/File:TolleLege.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#mediaviewer/File:AugustineBaptism.jpg
• http://saints.sqpn.com/sainta02.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#mediaviewer/File:Sandro_Botticelli_-_St_Augustin_dans_son_cabinet_de_travail.jpg

Resources

• Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
• Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick. Oxford University Press, 2001.

John of Damascus

Images

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Damascus#mediaviewer/File:John_Damascus_(arabic_icon).gif
• http://www.orthodox.net/ikons/john-of-damascus-01.jpg
• http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/mary19-damascene.jpg
• http://solzemli.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/stjohn_of_damascus.jpg

Resources

• Three Treatises on the Divine Images by John of Damascus. Translated and Introduction by Andrew Louth. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003.
• John of Damascus: Writings. Translated by Frederic H. Chase, Jr.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1958.

Hildegard of Bingen

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig-Geist-Kirche_Hildegard_von_Bingen_21092013.JPG
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hildegard-reading-and-writing.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:917hildegarde23.jpg

Resources

• Selected Writings: Hildegard of Bingen by Hildegard of Bingen. Penguin Classics, 2001.
• Audio: Hildegard von Bingen Canticles of Ecstasy and A Feather on the Breath of God
• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Hildegard of Bingen. Paulist Press, 1990.

Francis and Clare

Images of the saints

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giotto_di_Bondone_-_Saint_Francis_and_Saint_Clare_-_WGA09163.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-clare-of-assisi-saving-a-child-from-a-wolf–22241.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthonis_van_Dyck_075.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Chiara.jpg

Resources

• Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality). Paulist Press, 1986.
• Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thomas. Cornell University Press, 2012.
• Clare of Assisi: A Heart Full of Love by Ilia Delio OSF. St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2007.
• The Lessons of St. Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life by John Michael Talbot and Steve Rabey. Plume, 1998.

Martin Luther

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#mediaviewer/File:Lucas_kranakh.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#mediaviewer/File:Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._(Werkst.)_-_Portr%C3%A4t_des_Martin_Luther_(Lutherhaus_Wittenberg).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravensburg_Stadtkirche_Reformatorenfenster_Luther_detail_1.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clerestory_window_12_-_War_Memorial_Chapel_-_National_Cathedral_-_DC.JPG
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:95_theses#mediaviewer/File:95Thesen2390.JPG
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:95_theses#mediaviewer/File:95Thesen.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#mediaviewer/File:Luther95theses.jpg

Resources

• Martin Luther: A Very Short Introduction by Scott Hendrix
• Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings edited by John Dillenberger
• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton

Thomas Cranmer

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#mediaviewer/File:Tcranmer.JPG
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#mediaviewer/File:Cranmer_burning_foxe.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#mediaviewer/File:Cranmer_Window_Christ_Church.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer#mediaviewer/File:Thomas-Cranmer-ez.jpg

Resources

• Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Dairmond McCullough
• The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography by Alan Jacobs
• God Truly Worshipped: A Thomas Cranmer Reader by Jonathan Dean
• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/god-talk

George Herbert

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Herbert#mediaviewer/File:George_Herbert.jpg
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/George_Herbert_Window.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:George_Herbert#mediaviewer/File:Salisbury_Cathedral_George_Herbert.jpg

Resources

• A Life of George Herbert by Amy M. Charles. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977).
• A Life of Mr. George Herbert, Izaak Walton (1670).
• George Herbert: The Country Parson, The Temple (Classics of Western Spirituality, Paulist Press, 1981).
• The Poetry Foundation: George Herbert: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/george-herbert

Johann Sebastian Bach

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J.S._Bach_by_August_Weger.png
• https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6082/6154210785_8f9f1c3aa7_z.jpg
• http://ezellgilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Saint-Matthews_web.jpg 

Resources

• Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner
• Bach among the Theologians by Jaroslav Pelikan
• Johann Sebastian Bach: the Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff

Charles Wesley

Images

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Charles_Wesley.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wesley#mediaviewer/File:Charles_Wesley_2.JPG
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Charles-Wesley-preaching.jpg

Resources

• The Wesley Center at Northwest Nazarene University at nnu.edu
• Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley by John Tyson. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008.

Samuel Seabury

Images

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Seabury-earl.jpg
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Samuel_Seabury.JPG
• http://www.stgeorgeohio.org/stainedglass/seabury.jpg
• https://forallsaints.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/consecration-of-samuel-seabury.jpg

Resources

• One, Catholic, and Apostolic: Samuel Seabury and the Early Episcopal Church by Paul Marshall
• A History of the Episcopal Church by Robert Prichard
• People of the Way by Dwight Zscheile

Enmegahbowh

Images

• http://www.lentmadness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/enmegabowh.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EnmegahbowhBreck1865.jpg

Resources

• The Episcopal Church archives have a great deal about Enmegahbowh. This is a paper about his life written in 1994, which is a good place to start.  http://archive.episcopalchurch.org/documents/NAM_Enmegahbowh_Native_and_Christian.pdf
• This is an essay, written by one of his priests, in praise of Enmegahbowh’s ordaining bishop, the Rt. Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple, which describes the beginning of the missions to Minnesota. http://www.digitalhistoryproject.com/2012/11/1902-henry-benjamin-whipple-bishop-of.html

C.S. Lewis

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._S._Lewis%27_grave.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_C.S._Lewis,_Belfast.jpg

Resources

• The C.S. Lewis Foundation http://www.cslewis.org
• C.S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2013.
• C.S. Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Harper Perennial, 2013.
• Any of Lewis’ books!

Frances Perkins

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_Perkins_1936.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frances_Perkins#mediaviewer/File:Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frances_Perkins#mediaviewer/File:Frances_Perkins_TIME_FC_1933.jpg

Resources

• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and his Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey. New York: Doubleday, 2009.
• www.francesperkinscenter.org
• “Frances Perkins: Private Faith, Public Policy” by Michelle Kew. http://francesperkinscenter.org/docs/kewbookletonfpfaith.pdf

Martin Luther King Jr.

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#mediaviewer/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#mediaviewer/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS_5.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.#mediaviewer/File:Lyndon_Johnson_meeting_with_civil_rights_leaders.jpg

Resources

• A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.  edited by James Washington. HarperOne, 2003.
• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson. Grand Central Publishing, 2001.
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow. William Morrow Paperbacks, 2004.

Harriet Bedell

Images

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deaconess_Bedell_with_medicine_man_and_Bobby_Jim_Tiger_outside_the_mission.jpg

Resources

• Angel of the Swamp: Deaconess Harriet Bedell in the Everglades by Marya Repko. ECity Pub, 2009.
• Florida Faith: A Treasury of Tales from the Episcopal Church’s Colorful History in the Sunshine State by Beatrice Wilder. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.

Janani Luwum and Oscar Romero

Images of the saints

• http://www.sierraherald.com/luwum-bandw.jpg
• http://frjmh.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/abp-janani-luwum.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestminsterAbbey-Martyrs.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:20th-century_martyrs_(Westminster_Abbey)#mediaviewer/File:London_(8250180719).jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oscar_Romero#mediaviewer/File:Oscar_Romero_by_puigreixach.jpg
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Salvador_killed_more_than_75.000.jpg

Resources

• An accounting of the government search of Janani Luwum’s house, and the text of the Ugandan bishops’ letter to Amin is available here: http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/Janani-Luwum-s-last-moments/-/689844/2198088/-/item/1/-/uoub06/-/index.html
• The Violence of Love by Oscar Romero (trans. James R. Brockman, SJ) is a collection of his sermons translated into very poetic, accessible English.

Additional resources

Websites

• Lent Madness, www.lentmadness.org, a fun and engaging program to learn about the saints sponsored by Forward Movement.
• For those saints who are also honored in the Catholic Church, information can be found at www.catholic.org/saints
• Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) is often a surprisingly reliable source on the saints. Because it is an open source website which anyone can edit, you should be careful to verify what you read there before you share it as fact.
• Transforming Questions: transformingquestions.org
• prayer.forwardmovement.org

Books

• 131 Christians Everyone Should Know by Mark Galli includes some of the major historical saints.
• Brightest and Best: A Companion to Lesser Feasts and Fasts by Sam Portaro. Cowley Publications, 2012.
• Lesser Feasts and Fasts and Holy Women, Holy Men are publications of The Episcopal Church that include a very brief biography of each saint.
• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Farmer. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Stars in a Dark World: Stories of the Saints and the Holy Days of the Liturgy by Fr. John Julian OJN includes a more in-depth biography and reflection on each saint. It is an excellent resource.