Acta Sanctorum

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[ahk-tah sahngk-tawr-oom] / ˈɑk tɑ sɑŋkˈtɔr ʊm /

noun

1. a collection of the biographies of the Christian saints and martyrs, edited by the Bollandists and arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar.

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Acta Sanctorum

Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mediæval legend of the Finding of the Cross is given in the Acta Sanctorum under date of May 4, assigned by the Church to the commemoration of St. Helena's marvellous discovery.

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by James Mercer Garnett

This immense series is popularly known either as the "Acta Sanctorum" or the Bollandists.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

—Is any endeavour being made for the completion of that vast work, the Acta Sanctorum, the last volume of which I believe was published at Brussels in 1845?

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

The learned Jesuits at Antwerp, Bollandus and his continuators, have given us the Acta Sanctorum, enriched with curious remarks and dissertations, in forty-one large volumes in folio, to the 5th day of September.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler