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Acta Sanctorum

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Acta Sanctorum (Acts of the Saints) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saint's feast day. [1]

13 relations: Antwerp, Belgium, Bollandist, Brussels, Calendar of saints, Hagiography, Heribert Rosweyde, House of Habsburg, Jean Bolland, Royal Library of Belgium, Saint, Society of Jesus, Tongerlo Abbey.

Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bollandist

The Bollandists or Bollandist Society (Société des Bollandistes) are an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Heribert Rosweyde

Heribert Rosweyde (20 January 1569, Utrecht – 5 October 1629, Antwerp) was a Jesuit hagiographer.

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House of Habsburg

The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English), also called House of Austria was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of Europe.

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Jean Bolland

Jean Bolland (Johannes Bollandus) (18 August 1596 – 12 September 1665) was a Jesuit priest and prominent Flemish hagiographer.

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Royal Library of Belgium

The Royal Library of Belgium (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België in Dutch, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in French, abbreviated KBR and sometimes nicknamed Albertina in Dutch and Albertine in French) is one of the most important cultural institutions in Belgium.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Tongerlo Abbey

Tongerlo Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery at Tongerlo (A.K.A. Tongerloo) in Westerlo near Antwerp, Belgium.

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Acta sanctorum, Acta sanctorum Junii, Acta sanctorum Marlii, Acta sanctorum Novembris.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta_Sanctorum

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