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Bollandist

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Bollandist

Member of a group of Belgian Jesuits who edit and publish the Acta Sanctorum, the standard collection of saints' lives and other scholarly publications. They are named after John Bolland (1596–1665), who published the first two volumes 1643.



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The chief publication of the Bollandists, as they are called, is Acta Sanctorum (the Deeds of the Saints).
Dictionary of Saints by Kennedy, Leonard / Catholic Insight
Already in the nineteenth century, a Bollandist scholar proved that the identification of the rosary with Saint Dominic was false; that the rosary should have been attributed to a fifteenth-century Carthusian of the same name.
Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
The Bollandist systematic collection resulted in the diffusion of a new critical spirit that replaced the methods of the Golden Legend.
Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi ... by Ardissino, Erminia / Renaissance Quarterly
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