and added 117 saints and blesseds canonized or beatified between 2001 and 2004, as well as a number of more ancient saints not included in the previous edition. "The updated Martyrology contains 7,000 saints and blesseds currently venerated by the Church, and whose cult is officially recognized and proposed to the faithful as models worthy of imitation." Further comments There is a list drawn up at the beginning of Vol. I for November of the Acta Sanctorum. Among the compilations given the title of martyrologies are the Martyrologium Gallicanum of André du Saussay (Paris, 1637), the Catalogus Sanctorum Italiæ of Filippo Ferrari (Milan, 1613), the Martyrologium Hispanum of (Lyon, 1651–1659) (consulted with caution). The universal martyrology of Chastelain (Paris, 1709) represents vast researches. See also Hagiography Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563), by John Foxe Martyrs Mirror (1660), by Thieleman J. van Braght List of saints Notes References Citations Sources Charles de Smedt, Introductio generalis ad historiam ecclesiasticam (Gandavi, 1876), pp. 127–156 H. Matagne and V. de Buck in De Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus, 2nd ad., vol. iii. pp. 369–387 Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Louis Duchesne Les Sources du martyrologe hiéronymien (Rome, 1885) Philippe Bobichon, "La plus ancienne littérature martyriale" in Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne, t. II/5 : De Paul apôtre à Irénée de Lyon, B. Pouderon et E. Norelli (dir.), Paris, Cerf, 2013, pp. 619-647. Hans Achelis, Die Martyrologien, ihre Geschichte und ihr Wert (Berlin, 1900) Hippolyte Delehaye, Le Temoignage des martyrologes, in Analecta Bollandiana, xxvi. 7899 (1907) Henri Quentin, Les martyrologies historiques du moyen âge (Paris, 1908) M. Guidere, Les Martyrs d'Al-Qaida, Paris: Editions du Temps, 2006, 240p. (with imprimatur of cardinal Gibbons) Attribution External links The Roman Martyrology, 1956 revision of the 1914 typical edition (with English translation) Online English version of the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology Life of a saint for each day of the year (not a martyrology in the proper sense) The Martyrology of the Sacred Order of Friars Preachers (in English, 1954 revision) Christian terminology Types of illuminated manuscript