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Working documents :

A list of useful references for researches about the breton and celtic saints :

- the summary of Histoire de Bretagne de Pierre le Baud - Edition d'Hozier (1638) ; it's possible to consult the book on the web site Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes of Tours university. On the site http://gallica.bnf.fr it's possible to consult the "Cronicques et ystoires des Bretons" by Pierre Le Baud ; published from the first redaction, with explanations and notes by Vte Charles de La Lande de Calan, 4 vol., Rennes, 1907-1922.

- The sources, printed or handwritten, of the Lives of the saints of Brittany, extracted from the work of Joseph Loth
  "L'émigration bretonne en Armorique" (1883) ; his book "les noms des saints bretons" (1910) can be consulted on http://gallica.bnf.fr

- the catalog of the work of Albert Le Grand " Les Vies des Saints de Bretagne Armorique" (1636), from the edited version of the
  "trois chanoines" (1901 - Quimper ) ; this edition of the XXth century can be consulted on the web site
http://gallica.bnf.fr.

- the catalog of the work of Dom Lobineau " Les Vies des saints de Bretagne" (1725), with corrections and adds by l'abbé Tresvaux (1836) ; the first edition (1725) can be consulted on the web site http://gallica.bnf.fr

- the catalog of the work of chanoine de Garaby " Vies des bienheureux et des saints de Bretagne" (1839)
- the catalog of the work of S. Baring-Gould & J. Fischer " The Lives of the British Saints" (1907)
- the catalog of the work of François Duine " Mémento des sources hagiographiques de l'histoire de Bretagne" (1918)

- the list of the breton saints studied or cited by René Largillière in his thesis work (Rennes,1925) :
" les saints et l'organisation chrétienne primitive dans l'Armorique bretonne " ( reedited in 1995 by Armeline editions
)

- the catalog of the work of Canon Doble " The saints of Cornwall" (1960-1970, 1997)

- a table of comparison of written forms used for 80 saints in the catalogs above mentioned.
- the celebration dates extracted from the Propre des saints des diocèses de Bretagne (Rhedonis, 1955)
- a page about the breton calendars : the waltz of dates...
- some informations about the relics of breton saints

Researches on the site :

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Printed works to read about the breton saints :
An important number of books was produced since 100 years : see the following list

Internet sites to consult :

- The Bollandists have a web site in Belgium : introduction to Acta Sanctorum, and moteur de recherche de la BHL of Bollandists (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina) giving accurate references about the documents.
- It is possible to consult the Acta Sanctorum à la Bibliothèque Nationale : http://gallica.bnf.fr by asking for "acta sanctorum"

- L'Encyclopédie Catholique has a web site in the USA : introduction to The Catholic Encyclopedia.
- On the site can be read the Gallia Christiana, chronic of the Christian Gaul bishoprics.

Some hagiographic sites can be found on Internet, mainly in universities. Can be mentionned :
- the ORB site (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies) in his hagiographic part (due to Thomas Head) :
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/hagindex.html

- The site of Lampeter University in Wales : http://www.lamp.ac.uk with some useful links :
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/celtic/CeltHagio.htm, http://www.lamp.ac.uk/celtic/AlphaCata.htm...

- The web site of Stanford University, where can be found the works of S. Baring-Gould and J. Fisher about the Welsh, Cornish an Breton Saints : "The lives of the british saints", 4 vol. edited in London,1907 :
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/

- The site of Leicester University, with the TASC database of Graham Jones about the cult of the celtic saints :
http://www.le.ac.uk/users/grj1/tascintro.html

- The web site of digitized old manuscripts of Oxford : http://image.ox.ac.uk

- The web site of Internet Medieval Sourcebook of lFordham University Center for Medieval Studies :
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1g.html

- The web site of Mary Jones with a lot of historical and religious texts in latin and english (Vitae...) :
http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/index_latin.html

 

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