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- noun Any member of an
association ofscholars , originally allJesuits , who since the early seventeenth century have studiedhagiography and the cult of thesaints inChristianity .
Etymologies
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According to the very careful investigation of the whole question recently instituted by Father Delehaye, the Bollandist, in the light of modern sources of information, the above statement sums up all that can safely be affirmed about St. George, despite his early cultus and pre-eminent renown both in East and West (see Delehaye, "Saints Militaires", 1909, pp. 45-76).
04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004
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Hagiography is the study of the lives of saints, a specialty of the Bollandist order of Brussels.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Hagiography is the study of the lives of saints, a specialty of the Bollandist order of Brussels.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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This was the only continuous authority at the disposal of the compiler of the Bollandist life of our saint; he speaks of it in the most contemptuous terms.
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Another episode connecting Ciaran and Senan is narrated in the metrical Life of Senan (though the passage is absent from the CS copy; it will be found in the Bollandist edition, March, vol. ii, p. 766).
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See the five lives given in the Bollandist _Acta Sanctorum_, Feb. 1, i.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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-- Cf. the Bollandist _Acta Sanctorum_, Oct. 8, iv.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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This promise he does not appear to have fulfilled; the Bollandist compiler, as we have just noticed, had no materials but the imperfect Salamanca Life, and was forced to fill its many gaps as best he could, by diligently collecting references to Ciaran in the lives of other saints.
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And lastly, the accurate commentary on his life given by F. Stilting the Bollandist, on the 14th of September, from p. 401 to 709, t.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The Bollandist manuscripts afford many details of the pilgrim life at
Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm Daniel A. Goodsell
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