Acta Sanctorum

American  

[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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Example Sentences

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

Her Acta Sanctorum may be read from end to end with a dry eye and an unquickened pulse.'

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The sources for her life are to be found in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum on the 11th of August, and sketches in such Lives of the Saints as Alban Butler’s.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

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 Hobbes, John Oliver

The regicides were evidently the calendared saints of his religion, and their adventures his Acta Sanctorum.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various