Cult of Saints

The Cult of Saints is a major five-year project, based at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and directed by Bryan Ward-Perkins. It will investigate the origins and development of the cult of Christian saints. Central to the project is a searchable database, on which all the evidence for the cult of saints will be collected, presented (in its original languages and English translation), and succinctly discussed, whether in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek, Latin, or Syriac. Toward the end of the project, this database will be made freely available online. As to date, the site contains useful information and links in this research field.