Legal notice and sources
Santino brings together texts and data from many sources. Here they all are: where each one comes from and under what permission it is used.
Last revised: November 10, 2026
1. Who publishes Santino
Santino is a project by Anderson Alvarado (Colombia) and Federico Hochreuter (Switzerland), who are responsible for the app and for this website. Contact: f.hochreuter@gmx.ch.
2. The Bible
Each language of the app uses its own Bible, and all of them share the numbering of the Vulgate:
Spanish: the annotated Bible of Msgr. Juan Straubinger (1883–1956), translated from the original texts and published between 1944 and 1958.
English: the Douay-Rheims Bible in the revision by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Public domain. Transcription from getbible.net.
German: Die Heilige Schrift, translated by Joseph Franz von Allioli and revised by Augustin Arndt, in the 1914 edition. Public domain. Transcription in Zefania XML format (zefania-sharp project) of the text published by vulgata.info.
Latin: the Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain. Text from the Clementine Text Project (Michael Tweedale and contributors).
Greek: the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament.
3. Bible commentaries
Msgr. Juan Straubinger's notes to his translation.
George Leo Haydock's commentary on the Douay-Rheims Bible (1811–1814). Public domain.
Félix Torres Amat's notes to his translation of the Bible (1823–1825). Public domain.
The Catena Aurea of Saint Thomas Aquinas (13th century).
The commentaries are in Spanish in every language of the app.
4. The Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church, © Libreria Editrice Vaticana. The English and German versions are taken from the website of the Holy See (vatican.va), with their footnotes within the text.
5. The saints
The starting point for the catalog is the daily-saints project, under the MIT license.
The dates of the General Roman Calendar come from the Liturgical Calendar API, under the Apache 2.0 license.
The names in each language, the feast days and the identifiers come from Wikidata, whose data is in the public domain (CC0).
The images are Santino's own illustrations or, where there is none, works from Wikimedia Commons that are in the public domain or under CC0. Each one shows its author and its license on the saint's page.
The story, the quotes, the fun facts and the activities in the premium content are written for Santino with the help of artificial intelligence. Only quotes with a specific source (a work, a letter or a sermon) are included; if a saint has none, the section does not appear.
6. Prayers, calendar and other texts
The traditional prayers of the Church (the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Creed…) are in the public domain. In English and German their usual forms are used; hymns that have an authored translation are translated for Santino. All other prayers, the liturgical calendar, the apologetics and the texts of the app belong to Santino or to those who suggest them in the community, as the Terms explain.
7. News
The home screen shows headlines from Vatican News, ACI Prensa, Catholic News Agency and CNA Deutsch, each with a link to the story at its source.
8. Map
The map of parishes, missions and retreats is from Google Maps. Addresses are placed on the map with the Google Geocoding API.
9. Typefaces
Cinzel, Cardo and Red Hat Mono, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
10. If you are a rights holder
If you hold rights to any of this content and believe its use in Santino is not authorized, write to us at f.hochreuter@gmx.ch stating the work and the place in the app where it appears. We will review it and, if appropriate, remove it.