Among Christians, the Bible is most commonly used ( in the Sortes Sanctorum ), and in Islamic cultures the Qur ' an.

Drawing the Sortes Sanctorum ( Lots of the saints ) or Sortes Sacrae ( Holy Lots ) was a type of divination or cleromancy practiced in early Christianity, derived and adapted from the ancient Roman sortes, as seen in the pagan Sortes Homerica and Sortes Virgilianae.

# redirect Sortes Sanctorum

The Sortes Astrampsychi ( The Lots of Astrampsychus ), was a popular Greco-Roman fortune-telling guide written under the pseudonym Astrampsychus.

Some early Christians went to church and listened for the words of scripture that were being sung when they entered the church as a random means of predicting the future and God's will ( along the lines of the Jewish Bath Kol form of divination ), but the Sortes was done more formally, by casually opening the Holy Scripture and reading the first words to come to hand, with these words being taken to foretell the inquirer's fate.

These were found at the end of the Canons of the Apostles in the Abbey of Marmousier, and various canons were made at later councils and synods ( such as the councils of London under Archbishop Lanfranc in 1075, and Corboyl in 1126 ) against the Sortes as superstition.

A Peter of Toulouse, who had sworn on the Bible that accusations of heresy against him were false, was immediately afterwards convicted by the Sortes when a bystander grabbed the Bible and opened it randomly at the words of the demon Legion to Jesus, " What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?

: For the village in Azerbaijan, see Sors, Azerbaijan ; for the ancient Roman method of divination by drawing lots, see Sortes ( ancient Rome ); for the national statistical service in Slovenia, see Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

* As the ancient Roman form of this divination, see Sortes ( ancient Rome )

: For the ancient Roman method of divination by drawing lots, see Sortes ( ancient Rome ).

* In The Ash-Tree ( 1904 ) by M. R. James, a country vicar uses a Bible for " that old and by many accounted Superstitious Practice of drawing the Sortes " after the mysterious death of his friend.

Sortes is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Bragança.

Gregory of Tours relates that Merovech used the Sortes to check the predictions of a female fortune-teller that he would ( as he hoped ) gain the kingdom of his father Chilperic.

# Proprium Sanctorum ( special offices of saints );

# Commune Sanctorum ( general offices for saints );

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints ( Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process which leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of " heroic virtues " and beatification.

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints ( Official Latin Title: Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of " heroic virtues " and beatification.

Acta Sanctorum ( Acts of the Saints ) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saint's feast day.

The Acta Sanctorum began with two January volumes ( for saints whose feast days were in January ), published in 1643.

From 1643 to 1794, 53 folio volumes of Acta Sanctorum had been published, covering the saints from January 1 to October 14.

The words were transcribed, in Latin, by his confessor Ralph Bocking, a Dominican friar, and were eventually published in the Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints.

"< ref >< cite > PG </ cite > 46: 943 / 4A .</ ref > Similar powers are attributed to the Irish saints: kindling lamps, curing dumbness .< ref > Charles Plummer, ed., < cite > Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae </ cite > ( Oxford, 1910 ), 1: clxxviii .</ ref > This theme, too, persists in later hagiographic and quasi-hagiographic texts, appearing, for example in the Estoire del saint graal as the agency by which a madman is miraculously restored.

He is an editor of Bede, and also edited numerous Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts, including the two volume Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ( 1910 ), a modern companion volume to which is Richard Sharpe's Medieval Irish saints ' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ( Oxford, Clarendon 1991 ).

** Acta Sanctorum, hagiographical accounts of saints

The precise number of children in the family was historically contentious: the commentary on 30 May in the Acta Sanctorum, for example, initially states that they were nine, before describing Peter as the tenth child.

According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.

Dominical letters were a device adopted from the Romans by chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the " Proprium de Tempore " to the " Proprium Sanctorum " when constructing the ecclesiastical calendar for any year.

Among the principal churches to which the rose has been presented are St. Peter's Basilica ( five roses ), Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano ( four roses — according to some, two of the four were given to the basilica proper and two to the chapel called Sancta Sanctorum ), Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ( two roses ), Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima ( two roses ), Santa Maria sopra Minerva ( one rose ), Sant ' Antonio dei Portoghesi ( one rose ), and Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida ( one rose ).

She is also said to have been the writer of two volumes of prayers, Suspirium Sanctorum, which were dedicated to Samuel Goodenough, bishop of Carlisle.

According to the Biblical account ( Exodus 25: 19 ; 37: 6 ), the mercy seat was manufactured from pure gold, and was the same width and breadth as the Ark beneath it – 2. 5 cubits long, and 1. 5 cubits wide ; the Ark and mercy seat were, according to this passage, kept inside the Holy of Holies – the Temple's innermost sanctuary, the Sanctum Sanctorum, which was separated from the remainder of the temple by a thick curtain ( parochet ), because the ark and mercy seat were associated with the presence of Yahweh.

R. Butler, who, in his notes to the " Registrum Omnium Sanctorum ", expressly affirms that the " old foundations in Ireland were exclusively for Canons.

Later tradition places his birth at Crediton, but the earliest mention of Crediton in connection to Boniface is from the early fourteenth century, in John Grandisson's Legenda Sanctorum: The Proper Lessons for Saints ' Days according to the use of Exeter.

The Bollandists published seven early lives of this popular saint ( Acta Sanctorum November, i. 759 – 930 ), the first being the work of a contemporary.

A historical precedent was the ancient Roman practice of sortes " sortilege, divination by drawing lots ", which specialized into sortes Homerica, sortes Virgilianae, and sortes Sanctorum, using the texts of Homer, Virgil, and the Bible.

Before 1910 the difficulty of harmonizing the Proprium de Tempore and the Proprium Sanctorum, to which reference has been made, was only partly met in the thirty-seven chapters of general rubrics.

They are: ( 1 ) In Basilica Sanctorum Petri et Pauli, for a church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, possibly the church which Aldhem founded at Malmesbury, ( 2 ) In Basilica Beatae Mariae Semper Virginis, St Mary's Church, possibly also at Malmesbury, ( 3 ) In Ecclesia Mariae a Bugge Extructa, for the church built by Bugga, that is Eadburh of Minster-in-Thanet, a royal lady of the house of Wessex, ( 4 ) the twelve tituli known collectively as In Duodecim Apostolorum Aris and ( 5 ) In sancti Matthiae Apostoli Ecclesia.

The archbasilica's name in Latin is Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Sanctorum Iohannes Baptista et Evangelista in Laterano, which translates in English as Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour and Ss.

The confusion may come from a letter, apparently written by Ecgwin, which says "... primum cuidam pastori gregum ...", and the Acta Sanctorum ( Lives of the Saints ) which states something similar: "... pastores gregum ..." The Latin means either a shepherd or a herdsman.

The Seven Sleepers form the subject of a homily in verse by the Edessan poet Jacob of Saruq (" Sarugh ") ( died 521 ), which was published in the Acta Sanctorum.

After his death in 1629, the Jesuit scholar Jean Bolland (' Bollandus ', 1596 – 1665 ) continued the work, which was gradually finished over the centuries by the Bollandists, who continue to edit and publish the Acta Sanctorum.

Juraj Tranovský was sometimes called the father of Slovak hymnody and issued several collections of hymns, the first being the Latin Odarum Sacrarum sive Hymnorum Libri III in 1629, but his most important and most famous word was Cithara Sanctorum ( Lyre of the Saints ), written in Czech, which appeared in 1636 in Levoča.

Calepino also wrote the life of John the Hermit which is found in the Acta Sanctorum for the 22nd of October ( Oct. IX, 748-767 ).

The guests then arrived at the circular, domed, and ornately appointed Sanctorum Secorum, a central ,-high rotunda, from which other areas of the " Empire ", such as the mirrored " Infinity Hallway ", could be accessed.

There is a sarcophagus of Isaac's located in the Sancta Sanctorum, which contains depictions of Daniel, the adoration of the Magi, and Lazarus.

Bolland's main achievement is the compilation of the first five volumes of the Lives of the Saints in Latin, called the Acta Sanctorum, a series which was continued by others, who, after his death, formed the Society of Bollandists.

iv., which is printed in the Bollandists ' Acta Sanctorum May vi.