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Bollandist. Acta Sanctorum (IANUARIUS 1643) 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 ...
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. The laboratory of that ...
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Hippolyte Delehaye. 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 manuscripts, 18 volumes of lives of ...
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Feb 21, 2019 · Compiled between 1643 and 1940, this includes 67 volumes of detailed studies and sources on all saints in Eastern and Western Christianity. Today’s Bollandists (named for Fr. Bolland) continue the work of their forbears, critically analyzing the extensive literature on thousands of saints. Their scholarship encompasses various academic ...
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Origins and Foundation. Antwerp, 1607, Jesuit father Heribert Rosweyde (1569-1629) devised a plan for a philologically accurate publication of all the early and medieval lives of saints. This was printed at the Plantin Press in Antwerp and had the title, Fasti Sanctorum quorum Vitae in Belgicis bibliothecis manuscriptae.
