Acta Sanctorum
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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
No Acta Sanctorum contain more pathetic pictures of simple and all-absorbing godliness than were displayed by the subjects of these sketches.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
From any such charge the student of the "Acta Sanctorum" must regard the Bollandists as free.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Aucassin et Nicolette, which was probably written in Northern France towards the end of the twelfth century, is above all the descendant of the stories in the Acta Sanctorum and elsewhere.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
Foremost come the Bollandists, renowned throughout the world for their monumental work, the "Acta Sanctorum."
From The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by O'Conor, J. F. X. (John Francis Xavier)
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