Welcome to the Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity (CSLA) database.
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database is making readily accessible and searchable as much as possible of the early evidence for the cult of Christian saints (up to around AD 700), with key texts presented in their original language, all with English translation and brief contextual commentary. Project funding ended on 31 December 2018, but the process of uploading, checking, editing, and releasing entries is continuing, if necessarily slowly.
It is important to realise that this is a database of the surviving early evidence of cult, not a database of all early saints, of whom there will have been many who lived before 700, but for whom there is no unequivocal surviving evidence of early cult.
Our database was constructed by a sizable international team, and is built on the published work of hundreds of scholars, whom we hope to have credited fully and correctly; if you are unhappy with our use of your material, do please contact us. We also welcome all constructive feedback and suggestions.
The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity database is the product of a major project funded by the European Research Council (under Grant Agreement Number 340540) and based mainly at the University of Oxford, with substantial collaboration from the University of Warsaw. For further information: http://cultofsaints.history.ox.ac.uk/. In time, the project will also be producing a print volume, presenting and discussing its wider findings.
