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Sanctorum may refer to:
Religion
edit- Sanctum sanctorum, a Latin phrase that literally means "Holy of Holies"
- Sortes Sanctorum, 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, 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
Entertainment
edit- Sanctum Sanctorum (Marvel Comics), a fictional building in the Marvel Universe
- Beyond Sanctorum, a 1992 album by Therion
Places
edit- Sanctórum de Lázaro Cárdenas, in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala