Summer 2025 Reading Project: Older Books

 A Guide To The Saints

By Kristin E. White

(1992 ~ published 33 years ago)

https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Saints-Kristin-White/dp/0804108803

Byzantine And Russian Painting

By Kostas Papaioannou

(1965 ~ published 60 years ago)

https://www.amazon.com/Byzantine-Russian-painting-History/dp/B0007JB4U4/ 

Saint Juliana of Liège (Belgium)

Exploring the internet for information on Saint Juliana of Liege (also click on link provided for information on image) ... her feast day is April 6th

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/06/14/saint-juliana-and-corpus-christi/

https://reason2bcatholic.com/2023/04/06/saints-alive-st-juliana-of-cornillon-of-liege-2/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_of_Li%C3%A8ge

Thomas Merton (Spring 2025 Reading Project)

The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156010860/

Study guide for Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain

https://www.amazon.com/Study-Guide-Storey-Mountain-SuperSummary/dp/B0C47TSDCG/

Who was Saint Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres  

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc_at_the_Coronation_of_Charles_VII

FHG Summer 2024 Reading Project

Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

by G. K. Chesterton

https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas-Dumb-Ox/dp/0385090021

Etienne Gilson on Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox ~ "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas." (quote from "What Every Catholic Should Know About Philosophy" by Peter Kreeft, 2023) 

Music by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Adoro te devote

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/adoro-te-devote-11817

Art work entailing Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Demidoff Altarpiece

by Carlo Crivelli

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/carlo-crivelli-saint-thomas-aquinas

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

A Catholic online course called 'Bread of Life: The Eucharist in Galilee' included hagiography!

• Saint Hilary of Poitiers
• Saint Augustine
• Saint Cyril of Alexandria
• Theophylact of Antioch (Patriarch)
• Saint John Chrysostom

https://watch.formed.org/bread-of-life-the-eucharist-in-galilee

... referenced from a multivolume set called 'Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture' 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075V9S2DN

Christian Heortology

What is Christian heortology? ... sometimes spelled as eortology 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heortology

... heortology as a branch of liturgiology (liturgical studies or liturgics)

Lets read a book about Christian heortology ... book report? 

https://www.amazon.com/Heortology-History-Christian-Festivals-Present/dp/1331684587

https://www.amazon.com/Heortology-History-Christian-Festivals-Present/dp/1014919363/