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    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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    the Acta Sanctorum (The Lives 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, 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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