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Sanctorum may refer to:
- Sanctum sanctorum, a Latin phrase that literally means "Holy of Holies"
- Sortes Sanctorum (Lots of the saints) or Sortes Sacrae (Holy Lots), a type of divination or cleromancy practiced in early Christianity
- In Splendoribus Sanctorum, the communion chant for the propers of Christmas midnight mass, sung during the distribution of holy communion
- Acta Sanctorum ("Acts of the Saints"), an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography
- Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, the abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan (Leuven, 1645)
- Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, a late version of the martyrdoms of the two apostles, which claims to have been written by a certain Marcellus, thus the anonymous author, of whom nothing further is known, is referred to as the "pseudo-Marcellus"
- The Golden Legend or Legenda Sanctorum by Jacopo da Varagine, a collection of fanciful hagiographies or lives of the saints that became a late medieval bestseller
Usage examples of "sanctorum".
The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.
There was an eavesdropper to all of the foregoing Conant, squatting behind his great desk in the vault, where he had his sanctum sanctorum, knew nothing of it.
He longed particularly, he said, for a work in Latin available only in Europe, titled Acta Sanctorum, in forty-seven volumes, on the lives of the saints compiled in the sixteenth century.
The papa says the mass, enters the sanctum sanctorum, comes out again in a quarter of an hour, ascends the steps of the altar, turns towards his audience, and, after meditating for a minute and stroking his long beard, he delivers his oracle in a dozen words.
The kitchen was the supplement to the one small dining-room that the place boastedit was the sanctum sanctorum, a rendezvous that was more like a club than anything else, where those who were privileged to enter found a boisterous hospitality undreamed of in the starched expensive restaurants, where the diners are merely so many intruders, to be fed at a price and bowed stiffly out again.
From the fourth to the fourteenth century, these sortes sanctorum, as they are styled, were repeatedly condemned by the decrees of councils, and repeatedly practised by kings, bishops, and saints.
It is a fact well known to those who know it well, and indeed to anyone else who has ever been dumb enough to apply for tickets to a TV show, that the interior of TV studios, the very interior, the sanctum sanctorum, the heart of hearts, the belly of the beast, the studio proper, is a real disappointment, when you've finished queuing up and finally get to see it.
A low purr of ominous humming rose in pitch, growing to a siren-screaming crescendo, as the machines defence system suddenly registered the double image coursing across the floor of its very sanctum sanctorum.
Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist. l.
Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist.
He got to Lang's sanctum sanctorum to find the heavy hatch of the armored vault module hanging open.
Only one of the girls looked up and she was stationed before the door to the inner sanctum sanctorum.
He intended to keep his eye on Jude while the young monk was in the monastery's sanctum sanctorum.
As the Memorial Library clock struck one in the distance he turned his sign to the Closed For Lunch side, bolted up, and pranced away to his sanctum sanctorum.
He ushered the mild, silver-haired old gentleman into the sanctum sanctorum and waved to Mary Lou to draw the shades.