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• Christian women saints -- Biography
• Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
• Biography -- Early works to 1800

• Hec est nova queda[m] singular[is] at[que] rara legenda ed alijs sex lege[n]dis collecta et perfecta tractans de origine, et vite, ordine, de conversione, ac magistrali disputatione, ast de passione, morte, [&] miraculis generose regine, necnon gloriose virginis et martiris sancte Katherine, civis quo[que] olim erat urbis Alexandrine. (Impressa per Magistru[m] Joha[n]nem Gruninger ciue[m] Argentinen[sem], 1500), by Frater Petrus, Master of the Grüninger Terence, Johann Grüninger, and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Life of St. Macrina, by Gregory of Nyssa, ed. by W. K. Lowther Clarke (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Life of St. Frances of Rome, of Blessed Lucy of Narni, of Dominica of Paradiso, and of Anne De Montmorency, With An Introductory Essay on the Miraculous Life of the Saints (New York and Montreal: D. and J. Sadlier, ca.1885), by Georgiana Fullerton, contrib. by J. M. Capes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• El libro de la vida historia sagrada con santas reflexiones y doctrinas morales para la vida Cristiana (Libreria y Papeleria de J. Martinez, 1906), by Aniceto de la Merced (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhitii͡a svi͡atykh podvizhnit͡s Vostochnoĭ T͡Serkvi (Izd. knigoprodavt͡sa I.L. Tuzova, 1898), by Archbishop of Chernigov Filaret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Probleme der Hysterie und die Offenbarungen der heiligen Therese. (J. Zeitler, 1906), by G. Hahn and Paul Prina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Erinnerungen der Schwester Saint-Louis : aus der Zeit ihrer Erziehung und ihres Lebens in der Welt. Erstes Bändchen (Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuadros religiosos (Madrid : Editorial Pueyo, 1925., 1925), by Emilia Pardo Bazán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation, ed. by Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Vida de la B. Mariana de Jesus de Paredes y Flores, conocida vulgarmente bajo el nombre de la Azucena de Quito (Impr. de la viuda de Palacios é hijos, 1854), by Jacinto Morán de Butrón and Félix González Cumplido (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamaṛōt kensagrutʻiwn Kʻoyr Tʻerēziayi Manuk-Hisusi ew Surb Dastaṛakin Karmeghean kusanatsʻ kargēn : 1873-1897. (880-02 K. Polis : Tparan "Katʻoghikē Ardzagang"i, 1913., 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jeanne d'Arc et l'Allemagne ... (G. Crès et cie, 1915), by Léon Bloy and of Arc Joan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jeanne d'Arc, sa mission--son culte. (E. Dentu, 1893), by Edmond Richardin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeanne d'Arc : grande histoire illustrée. (Maison de la Bonne Presse, 1913), by Henri Debout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pucelle d'Orléans (A Rouen : Chez Lecrêne-Labbey, [1792], 1792) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leben der Heiligen Teresa von Jesus, von ihr Selbst Geschrieben: Nach der Neuesten Originalausgabe Don Vicente de la Fuente Professor der Theologie an der Universität zu Madrid, aus dem Spanischen übersezt von Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (in German; Mainz: Kirchheim, 1867), by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, ed. by Vicente de la Fuente, trans. by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, by Saint Catherine of Siena (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• Life and Revelations of Saint Margaret of Cortona: Dedicated to Her Brothers and Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis (London: Burns and Oates; Dublin; M. H. Gill and Sons, 1883), by Giunta Bevegnati, trans. by F. M'Donogh Mahony, contrib. by J.-F.-O. Luquet
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Saint Margaret of Cortona (Philadelphia: P. F. Cunningham and Son, 1888), by Antonio Francesco Giovagnoli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• St. Margaret of Cortona : the Magdalen of the seraphic order (Sealy, Bryers and Walker ;, 1903), by F. Léopold de Chérancé and Robert Francis O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Life and Legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910), trans. by Charlotte Balfour, contrib. by Francis Du Puis, Father Cuthbert, and Clare of Assisi
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The life of Saint Clare, ascribed to Fr. Thomas of Celano of the order of Friars minor (A.D. 1255-1261) tr. and edited from the earliest mss. (The Dolphin press, 1910), by Raschal Robinson, of Celano Thomas, and Clare of Assisi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Istoria della vita di Santa Zita, vergine lucchese : narrata secondo i documenti contemporanei (Tip. editrice S. Paolina, 1875), by Almerico Guerra and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kateri Tekakwitha : lily of the Mohawks, 1656-1680 (Messenger Press, 1927), by Édouard Lecompte and Lawrence Drummond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La vie de la bienheureuse epouse de Jesus-Christ, soeur Rose de Sainte Marie : religieuse du tiers ordre de Saint Dominique, originaire du Perou dans les Indes Occidentales (A. Cramoisy, 1668), by Jean Baptiste Feuillet and Leonhard Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flower of the new world; being a short history of St. Rose of Lima (R. & T. Washbourne;, 1899), by F. M. Capes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La vie de Sainte Therese e'crite par elle-mesme (A. Dezallier, 1691), by Saint Teresa of Avila and Martial Chanut (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sainte Brigitte de Suède sa vie, ses révélations et son oeuvre. (Ancienne librairie religieuse H. Oudin, J. Leday, 1892), by Catherine Moitessier Flavigny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton, foundress and first superior of the Sisters or Daughters of Charity in the United States of America ([Kelly, Piet and company], 1879), by Charles I. White (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Legende, Named in Latyn Legenda Aurea, That is to Say in Englysshe the Golden Legende (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1527), by de Voragine Jacobus, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Being a Set of Sermons on Saints' Days Formerly Observed by the English Church (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1881), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, ed. by Walter W. Skeat (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Golden Legend (unique very early printed copy of selections, missing some pages; 1483), by Jacobus de Voragine, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, by Jacobus de Voragine, ed. by Frederick Startridge Ellis, trans. by William Caxton (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
• Aelfric's Lives of saints : being a set of sermons on saints' days formerly observed by the English Church (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1881), by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Gunning, Walter W. Skeat, and British Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legenda aurea (E. Diederichs, 1925), by de Voragine Jacobus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leaves from the Golden legend (E.P. Dutton, 1899), by Jacobus de Voragine, C. M. Watts, and H. D. Madge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sainte Marie-Madeleine : ouvrage accompagné d'une Notice biographique sur le P. Lacordaire, du Fragment autobiographique relatif au rétablissement en France de l'ordre des frères prêcheurs, des Lettres a un jeune homme surla vie chrétienne (Libr. Garnier Frères, 1912), by Henri Dominique Lacordaire and A. Chauvin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acta canonizationis quatuor sanctorum &c. (Ex typographia Vaticana in Archigymnasio Sapientiae, 1720), by Pierre Giffart, Filippo Vasconi, and Giustiniano Chiapponi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lege[n]da sancto[rum] que Lombardica no[m]i[n]at[ur] hystoria ([Michael Wenssler], 1490), by Jacobus de Voragine, Michael Wenssler, Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania), and Kurt Gaebel & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• La légende dorée: traduite du latin d'après les plus anciens manuscrits, avec une introduction, des notes, et un index alphabétique (in French), by de Voragine Jacobus, trans. by Teodor de Wyzewa (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chronicle and institution of the order of the seraphicall father S. Francis. Selections ([Saint-Omer : English College Press], Permissu superiorum. M.DC.XXII. [1622]), by de Lisboa Marcos, Catharine Bentley, and Elizabeth Evelinge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Flos sanctorum. (Doway : By Henrie Taylor, 1624), by Edward Kinsman and Alonso de Villegas (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Flos sanctorum. English (Printed at Doway, : By the widow of Laurence Kellam, at the signe of the holy Lambe., M. DC. XIV. [1614]), by Alfonso de Villegas, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Edward Kinsman, and William Kinsman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The life of Saint Neot, the oldest of all the brothers to King Alfred (J.J. Stockdale, 1809), by John Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vitae Sanctorum Columbani, Vedastis, Iohannis (Hannoverae [Hannover, Germany] ; Lipsiae [Leipzig, Germany] : Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1905., 1905), by of Bobbio Jonas, Wilhelm Levison, and Bruno Krusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalogus sanctorum et beatorum totius ordinis Camaldulensis (Apud Volcmarum Timan, 1606), by Thomas de Minis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogvs sanctorvm Italiae in menses duodecim distributus (Apud Hieronymum Bordonium, 1613), by Philippus Ferrarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio della vita, e delle virtu della beata Giovanna Maria Bonomi dell' ordine di S. Benedetto : abbadessa nel monastero di San Girolamo della città di Bassano (Generoso Salomoni, 1783), by Girolamo Lombardi and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio della vita, e delle virtu della beata Giovanna Maria Bonomi dell' ordine di S. Benedetto : abbadessa nel monastero di San Girolamo della città di Bassano (n.p., 1783), by Girolamo Lombardi and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sommario della vita apostolica del B. Francesco Solano, minore osseruante di S. Francesco, predicat. apostolico nell'Indie Occidentali : all'illustrissimo, e reuerendiss. sig. monsignore Ettorre Molza, dignissimo, e vigilantissimo vescouo di Modona. (Nella Stamperia di Viuiano Soliani stamp. duc., 1675), by Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Ettore Molza, Viviano Soliani, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicle and institution of the order of the seraphicall father S. Francis. Selections ([Saint-Omer : English College Press], Permissu superiorum. M.DC.XXII. [1622]), by de Lisboa Marcos, Catharine Bentley, and Elizabeth Evelinge (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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