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

Orange refused to be drawn, but he promised to lend her the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists in sixty volumes in folio.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by John Oliver Hobbes

BOLLANDISTS, the Belgian Jesuits who publish the Acta Sanctorum, the great collection of biographies and legends of the saints, arranged by days, in the order of the calendar.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

This is well brought out in the instructive story, supposed to be of third century origin, of the eunuchs Achilleus and Nereus, as narrated in the Acta Sanctorum, May 12th.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

It is therefore unlikely that he collaborated with Massinger in any of the plays which we possess.9.Such a reference to Acta Sanctorum as is contained in these lines might be made by an Anglican: Antoninus.

From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank

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