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The Bollandist Society ( Latin: Societas Bollandistarum; French: Société des Bollandistes) are an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.
Bollandist, member of a small group of Belgian Jesuits who edit and publish the Acta Sanctorum, the great collection of biographies and legends of the saints, arranged according to their feast days. The idea was conceived by Heribert Rosweyde, a Jesuit who intended to publish, from early.
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The Bollandists oversaw the project, first in Antwerp and then in Brussels. The Acta Sanctorum began with two January volumes (for saints whose feast days were in January), published in 1643. From 1643 to 1794, 53 folio volumes of Acta Sanctorum were published, covering the saints from 1 January to 14 October.
BOLLANDISTS. A small group of Jesuits in Antwerp, Belgium, organized into a society in the 17th century by Jean Bolland for the critical study and publication of the lives of the saints. Although named after the first of their number, the group got inspiration from the learned Leribert Rosweyde (1569 to 1629), who conceived the idea of purging ...
For almost four centuries the Bollandists have been at the forefront of hagiographic research. Our team of experts, now both Jesuit and lay, is dedicated exclusively to the critical study of Greek, Latin, Oriental and modern hagiographic sources as well as to the history of the saints and their cults in all their aspects.
Jean Bolland, SJ (Latin: Johannes Bollandus) (13 August 1596 – 12 September 1665) was a Flemish Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent hagiographer. [1] Bolland's main achievement is the compilation of the first five volumes of the Lives of the Saints in Latin , called the Acta Sanctorum , a series which was continued by others, who, after ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Jean Bolland (born Aug. 18, 1596, Tirlemont, Duchy of Brabant—died Sept. 12, 1665, Antwerp) was a Jesuit ecclesiastical historian known for his major role in the compilation of the Acta Sanctorum, a vast collection of lives of the Christian saints, and as the founder of the Bollandists, a small group of Jesuits who continued to edit and publish ...
