Litany of Saints
  • AOZ
    Posts: 369
    I have a long list of saint names for which I need to find the Latin equivalents. Anyone have a good resource? The added complication: the intent is to be able to sing the Litany with children in Latin. But on the list are a number of names that I'm not sure lend themselves to a Latin equivalent, for example, St. Edith Stein. Suggestions?
  • JahazaJahaza
    Posts: 470
    Edith Stein is typically referred to in Vatican documents as "Teresa Benedicta of the Cross" for instance here in the Post-Synodal Exhortation Verbum Domini:

    Quisque sanctus veluti luminis radium est quod ex Dei Verbo oritur: sic insuper de sancto Ignatio de Loyola cogitamus in eius investigatione veritatis inque spiritali discrimine; de sancto Ioanne Bosco in passione pro iuvenum educatione; de sancto Ioanne Maria Vianney in conscientia magnitudinis sacerdotii veluti doni et muneris; de sancto Pio de Pietrelcina in officio instrumenti divinae misericordiae; de sancto Iosepho-Maria Escrivá in praedicatione de universali vocatione ad sanctitatem; de beata Teresia Calcuttiensi, missionaria Dei Caritatis erga ultimos, deque ceteris usque ad martyres regiminum nazistarum et communistarum, inter quos inveniuntur una ex parte sancta
    Teresia Benedicta a Cruce (Edith Stein), monacha carmelitis, altera autem ex parte beatus Aloisius Stepinac, cardinalis et archiepiscopus Zagrebiensis.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    I know this is an older thread, but if you still need this, have you checked if the martyrology is available online? You might be able to find them there (searching in the english version for the names you need, then looking in the latin version to find the latin names).
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