Acta Sanctorum (Acts of the Saints) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical...
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Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography Acta...
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Bollandist (section Acta Sanctorum)
the Acta Sanctorum (The Acts of the Saints). They are named after the Flemish Jesuit Jean Bollandus (1596–1665). The idea of the Acta Sanctorum was first...
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Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae is the abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the Franciscan, John Colgan (Leuven, 1645). Aided by Hugh...
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Domitian (Acta Sanctorum, " April, II, 4);" "St. Babolenus, Abbot of St-Maur-des-Fossés near Paris, d. in the seventh century (Acta Sanctorum, June, VII...
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Sunniva (redirect from Acta sanctorum in Selio)
tradition was identified with Saint Alban, the Roman-era British saint. Acta sanctorum in Selio is a Latin hagiography of saints Alban and Sunniva and their...
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of the compilations of the Middle Ages. In Vol. II for March of the "Acta Sanctorum" (1668) the Bollandists furnished new materials for martyrological criticism...
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Domitian (Acta Sanctorum, " April, II, 4);" St. Babolenus, Abbot of St-Maur-des-Fossés near Paris, d. in the seventh century (Acta Sanctorum, June, VII...
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celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries, the 17th-century Acta Sanctorum published by the Bollandists listed her feast under July 12, but the...
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Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti: Pars Prima (in Latin), vol. IV, apud Ludovicum Billaine, in Palatio Regio, p. 664 Mabillon, Jean (1735), Acta Sanctorum...
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mentioned dog Latin by name in 1815: Fifty-two volumes in folio, of the acta sanctorum, in dog-latin, would be a formidable enterprise to the most laborious...
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her death in 1329 at the age of sixty-six. Her feast was given in the Acta Sanctorum on 11 June, the day of the first translation of her relics in 1334 by...
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Saint Eustace. The Bollandists published seven early lives of Hubertus (Acta Sanctorum, November 3, 759 – 930 A.D.); the first of these was the work of a contemporary...
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of the Bollandists, a group of Jesuit hagiographers who produced the Acta Sanctorum, which took an analytical approach to the "Lives of the Saints". In...
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February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, tortured with iron combs, and beheaded...
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Coptic Legend of Hilaria. Apolinaria's feast day, according to the Acta Sanctorum, is January 1. Apolinaria was a daughter of Anthemius, called "emperor"...
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at Eschau, Alsace in 778, and her cult spread to Germany from there. Acta Sanctorum reports that her feast day of 15 May is attested in German, Belgian...
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Hagiographies of St Januarius are compiled in the 6th volume of the Acta Sanctorum Septembris. A condensed account of the removals of the relics is given...
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(Third ed.). London: Penguin Reference. p. 152. Cavallo 1997, p. 71 Acta Sanctorum, Volume 12, as republished in 1866 Church History (Eusebius), book 8...
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Irish missionary to Germany in the 7th century, who, according to the Acta Sanctorum, was born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland c. 640. He departed for...
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first five volumes of the Lives of the Saints in Latin, called the Acta Sanctorum, a series which was continued by others, who, after his death, formed...
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individual known by his profession. He was mentioned briefly in 1675 in the Acta sanctorum volume for April. Expeditus was included in martyrologies in Italy before...
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century Passio (ASS = Acta Sanctorum, 347-8) second, 11th century Passio (ASS 345-6). See also Antonio Niere, Bibliotheca Sanctorum, op.cit. pp. 354–8;...
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Palestinian-Georgian calendar venerates him on December 16 and October 19 in the Acta Sanctorum. He was born in Cappadocian Sebasteia. Five months old at his Christian...
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by Giovanni Battista de Rossi and Louis Duchesne to the monumental Acta Sanctorum, which prepared the way for a critical edition published by Henri Quentin...
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Franciscan Convent in Dublin, edited by John Colgan as part of the Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae. According to that account, Kevin (like Columba) was of noble...
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Sanctimoniali Ordinis Cisterciensis, Camerae Iuxta Bruxellam", in Acta Sanctorum, edited by Godfrey Henschen, 477–83. Paris: Société des Bollandistes...
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ISBN 978-0-85244-556-3. Reimann or Ousmann, De S. Cadroe abbate, ed. John Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, Vol. 1. pp. 494 ff; in part reprinted by W.F. Skene, Chronicles...
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dispatched to Ireland by Pope Celestine I. The Bollandists compiling the Acta Sanctorum were even driven to complain of the Irish "canonising dead men in troops...
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not believe in the saint's historicity. The Bollandist commentator (Acta Sanctorum vol. 46, p. 209) considers two possibilities: that of the saint being...
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