Lives of Saints (collections)

Orthodox England.  Fr. Andrew Philips has gathered and published hundreds of pages on saints of the West, including saints of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Spain, Scandinavia, and Germany.  He has posted services and commemoration calendars.

Lives of the Saints. An outstanding set of links to online collections of the lives of the saints, including western, Russian, Serbian and Georgian.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook  Wow, this website has come a long way since I discovered it back in the late 1990s.  A huge collection of links to lives of saints available online.

Lives of Women Saints.  An index to lives of women saints at the Antiochian website.

Orthodox Saints of Britain and Ireland  A big collection of lives of British and Irish saints with their icons.  You can also find several lives of continental saints here.

Orthodox Saints of America A collection of lives of the Saints for the enlighteners of America.

Saint Pachomios Library The St. Pachomius Library is a Greek Orthodox project to put Byzantine texts on the internet, including many saints' lives.

Holy Women of Byzantium Ten lives of women saints, including St. Mary of Egypt, St. Matrona, and St. Thomais, originally published in print by Dumbarton Oaks and now available as PDFs for free.

Dumbarton Oaks  A bibliography of Byzantine saints' lives available in English translation.

Lives of Saints (individual)

Elder Ambrose of Optina.  Stories excerpted from the life by Fr. Sergius Chetverikov, translated and published by St. Herman of Alaska Press.

Elder Nektary of Optina.  Stories from Sergei Nilus and Bishop Alexander Mileant.

St. Philaret of New York.   A blog dedicated to this great saint of our land and era.  Lives, sermons, photos, and just about anything else you might want.

St. John Maximovich of Shanghai and San Francisco.  The cathedral where his relics are treasured, Holy Virgin Cathedral Joy of All Who Sorrow in San Francisco, has posted his life, services, and testimonials of his miraculous help.  ***You can also request prayers and holy oil here.***

Grand Duchess Elizabeth.  A sermon on her life by Metropolitan Anastassy.

Iconography and Illuminated Manuscripts

All Merciful Saviour.  The Western saints icon project has collected icons from all over the web for dozens of saints.

The Lindisfarne Gospels.  Leaf through a selection of the most beautiful pages at this British Library site.  You can also read an introduction about the Lindisfarne Gospels and visit a virtual exhibition about this wonder of sacred art and the Celtic monastic culture that produced it.

Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai A virtual exhibition of icons from Sinai at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Icons from Mt. Sinai A big gallery at Wikimedia Commons.

Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery The Monastery Icon Workshop specializes in egg tempera panel icons, fresco painting, and mosaics.

Icons from the Tretyakov A gallery at Wikimedia Commons.

Museum of Russian Icons.

Sainte Russie.  A virtual exhibition of Russian icons from the conversion of Russia to the time of Peter the Great, by the Louvre.

Mosaics at Chora Many wonderful photos of these stunning icon mosaics.

Mosaics at Monreale, Sicily.  A gallery of the Old Testament mosaics at this twelfth-century cathedral.

Byzantine Mosaics and Other Treasures.  This link brings you to the search page at the Web Gallery of Art; choose "mosaic" in the "form" box to find all the Byzantine mosaics from San Marco in Venice, the Palatine Chapel in Sicily, the Cathedral of Monreale in Sicily, and other treasures.