Bollandist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bollandist
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"If all goes well," says one veteran Bollandist, "it will take at least ten years."
From Time Magazine Archive
The society's leader is Father Maurice Coens, 70, a soft-spoken expert on medieval German saints and a Bollandist for 35 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bollandist research has no official standing in the church, but Vatican scholars have often relied on the society's discoveries in deciding whether to eliminate a nonexistent saint from the calendar.
From Time Magazine Archive
This question is gone into fully; and the best authorities are quoted by the Bollandist.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
The legend of the second of these saints is given in the Bollandist Acta SS.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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