Sanctorum

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Sanctorum may refer to:

Religion[edit]

  • Sanctum sanctorum, a Latin phrase that literally means "Holy of Holies"
  • Sortes Sanctorum, a type of divination or cleromancy practiced in early Christianity
  • In Splendoribus Sanctorum, the communion chant for the propers of Christmas midnight mass, sung during the distribution of holy communion
  • Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography
  • Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, the abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan (Leuven, 1645)
  • Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, a late version of the martyrdoms of the two apostles, which claims to have been written by a certain Marcellus, thus the anonymous author, of whom nothing further is known, is referred to as the "pseudo-Marcellus"
  • The Golden Legend, or Legenda sanctorum, by Jacopo da Varagine, a collection of fanciful hagiographies or lives of the saints that became a late medieval bestseller

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