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    The Bollandist Society (Latin: Societas Bollandistarum; French: Société des Bollandistes) is an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally...
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    scenes, probably based on a lost illuminated copy of one of his Lives. The Bollandist Society continues the study, academic assembly, appraisal and publication...
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    Catholicism portal Ad maiorem Dei gloriam Apostleship of Prayer Blas Valera Bollandist Canadian Indian residential school system Jesuit conspiracy theories Jesuit...
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    finished over the centuries by the Bollandists, who continue to edit and publish the Acta Sanctorum. The Bollandists oversaw the project, first in Antwerp...
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    hagiography which is identified by Hippolyte Delehaye of the scholarly Bollandists to be a palimpsest of the 5th century. An earlier work by Eusebius, Church...
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    mosaics. Most historical scholars follow the hypothesis put forward by Bollandist Hippolyte Delehaye (1859–1941), that his veneration was transferred from...
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  • of Saint Bernard, archbishop of Vienne (9th century), published in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum; a life or martyrium of Saint Desiderius, bishop of Vienne...
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    Saints, s.v. "Valentine": "The Acts of both are unreliable, and the Bollandists assert that these two Valentines were in fact one and the same." Matilda...
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    contemplative vocation and reverence for the prophet. In the 17th century the Bollandist Society, whose declared aim was to search out and classify materials concerning...
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    Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, but the German Jesuit scholar Joseph...
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    Bible. Vol. I. p. 107. According to one form of his Acts (quoted by the Bollandists from a Synoxarion), he prayed that those suffering from toothache might...
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    University of Toronto. Bruxellis, Société des Bollandistes. pp. 1593–1599. Bollandists (1898). Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae aetatis....
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  • Grosjean, SJ (26 May 1900 – 13 June 1964) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, Bollandist, and Celtic scholar. Born in Uccle, Grosjean studied at St Michael College...
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    Murray Joseph Fitzmyer Alonso Rodriguez List of Jesuit theologians General Bollandist La Civiltà Cattolica General Congregation Superior General of the Society...
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    according to Jean Mabillon, or during the 11th century according to the Bollandist Godfrey Henschen. Cf. Firapel in the Roman de Renart: strong skin, like...
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    rosary. This gave rise to the title Our Lady of the Rosary. According to Bollandists, the story of the vision was originated with Alanus de Rupe, which is...
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    hagiography of the saint, and appears to be based in a Vita breviora which the Bollandist editors obtained from Henry Fitzsimon, but which is no longer extant....
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    Society of Bollandists moved from Antwerp to Brussels, where they continued their work in the monastery of the Coudenberg; in 1788, the Bollandist Society...
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    legend is entangled with the legend of the martyr Saint Eustace. The Bollandists published seven early lives of Hubert (Acta Sanctorum, November 3, 759...
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    been venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, particularly by the Bollandists. In the late 10th century, Folcuin wrote that Abel had been a monk in...
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    the apse. His festival was kept throughout Scotland on 13 January. The Bollandists have printed a special mass for this feast, dating from the 13th century...
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    Murray Joseph Fitzmyer Alonso Rodriguez List of Jesuit theologians General Bollandist La Civiltà Cattolica General Congregation Superior General of the Society...
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    Albina, who died on 4 March 387, was the mother of Saint Marcella. The Bollandists Henchenius and Papenbroch (of the Acta Sanctorum) did not consider her...
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    Hippolyte Delehaye (1919) did not believe in the saint's historicity. The Bollandist commentator (Acta Sanctorum vol. 46, p. 209) considers two possibilities:...
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    Murray Joseph Fitzmyer Alonso Rodriguez List of Jesuit theologians General Bollandist La Civiltà Cattolica General Congregation Superior General of the Society...
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    Saint Palladius, a Gaul dispatched to Ireland by Pope Celestine I. The Bollandists compiling the Acta Sanctorum were even driven to complain of the Irish...
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    if so, to what extent. The account by Eucherius of Lyon is classed by Bollandist Hippolyte Delehaye among the historical romances. Donald F. O'Reilly,...
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    martyred. Davies takes his figures from martyrs' acts collected by the Bollandists. S. Lieberman located this event at Lydda (Lod, Israel). Barnes contests...
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  • amassed by the early modern period are pure inventions. She agrees with Bollandist scholar Hippolyte Delehaye that most martyrdom literature developed in...
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    Murray Joseph Fitzmyer Alonso Rodriguez List of Jesuit theologians General Bollandist La Civiltà Cattolica General Congregation Superior General of the Society...
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