Bollandist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bollandist
Example Sentences
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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
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
"If all goes well," says one veteran Bollandist, "it will take at least ten years."
From Time Magazine Archive
Certain authors, and among them the Bollandist Suysken, seem to incline toward the negative, and believe that to cite the Legenda Antiqua is about the same as to refer vaguely to tradition.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
Papebrach, the Bollandist, on the other hand, considered the Life could not be older than the twelfth century, but this opinion of his seems to have been based on a misapprehension.
From The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore by P. (Patrick) Power
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