Hagiography is the branch of learning that has for its object the history of the saints and their veneration

NOTE: This is not an article from the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is provided here for the benefit of those interested in pursuing additional studies in this area.

OVERVIEW

• General view
• Beatification and Canonization
• The Blessed
• Confessor of the Faith
• Martyr for the Faith
• Confession (tomb)
• Martyrology

PERSECUTIONS

• General view
• Coptic Persecutions

MARTYRS

• Irish Confessors and Martyrs
• English Confessors and Martyrs
• Japanese Martyrs
• Chinese Martyrs
• Martyrs of the Paris Commune
• The Martyrs of Gorkum
• Four Crowned Martyrs
• The Forty Martyrs
• The Ten Thousand Martyrs
• Teresian Martyrs of Compiegne
• Martyrs of Cuncolim
• Martyrs of Scillium
• Massa Candida Martyrs
• Seven Robbers, martyrs

MARTYROLOGIES

• Acts of the Martyrs
• Legends of the Saints
• Barlaam and Josaphat
• Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae
• Acta Triadis Thaumaturgae
• Martyrology of Usuard

SAINTS

• 1,001 Saints - alpha sortable, with commemorations and patronages
• Patron Saints - special intercessors

HAGIOGRAPHERS

• Ado of Vienne, Saint
• Aengus the Culdee, Saint
• The Bollandists
• Jean Mabillon
• Jonas of Bobbio
• Florus
• Ardo Smaragdus
• Symeon Metaphrastes
• Osbern
• Luigi Lippomano
• Laurentius Surius
• John Bridgewater
• Pedro de Ribadeneira
• Thomas Messingham
• John Colgan
• Francois Baert
• Godfrey Henschen
• Jean Gamans
• Adrien Baillet
• Jacques Bouillart
• Alban Butler
• Pierre Francois Xavier de Ram
• John Evangelist Stadler
• Victor de Buck
• John O'Hanlon