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Military Martyrs  - http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/  Information on various soldier saints. Includes early martyrologies translated into English.  Yahoo Groups: Celtic and Old English Saints  - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/  Daily messages about the first millennium Saints of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, England, Cornwall, and Isle of Man.  Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html  Ancient, Byzantine, and medieval hagiographic original texts, in translation and otherwise, with basic data on the cult of saints, emphasis on historical understanding of the texts. [Note: the word "cult" is a technical term referring to the religious practices surrounding devotion to saints.]  Catholic Encyclopedia: Legends of the Saints  - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09128a.htm  The legenda are stories about the saints, and often include a mix of historical fact and unhistorical embellishments.  The Golden Legend  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/  A very popular medieval book of saints' lives, written between 1260 and 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine.  The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/delehaye-legends.html  Full text of the 1907 edition of a book by Hippolyte Delehaye, about medieval hagiography. 517K