MARTYROLOGIUM ROMANUM

Description

One of the official texts of the Church in modern times. The Martyrologium presents the list of saints and martyrs and feast days ordered according to the days of the year. Compiled by Cesare Baronius (1538-1607) on the basis of historical sources contemporary with him, according to the calendar reform of Pope Gregory XIII (1582). Cesare Baronio, appointed cardinal in 1596 by Clement VIII, became librarian of the Vatican Library a year later. An authoritative advisor to the pope, he inspired his anti-Spanish policy. He wrote a monumental history of the Church, the ‘Annales’, to refute Protestant theories.