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F. DE VRIENDT – Ph. DESMETTE (éd.)

Les saints anciens au temps de la Réforme catholique

(= Subs. hag., 98)

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Bernard JOASSART

Entre libéralisme et ultramontanisme

(= Tabularium hagiographicum, 9)

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Saints are inspirational, though some may belong more to the realm of folklore or even invention. For twenty centuries they have been influencing our world, our culture and our thinking in ways few people realise.

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Thanks to a generous gift from the Baillet Latour Foundation we are able to catalogue over 22,000 books published prior 1800.

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From 92 Pages to More than 60,000: How the Bollandists Created the “Science of the Saints”

May 18, 2021

Newsletter 6 de la Société des Bollandistes, décembre 2020

Le mot du Directeur Chers amis des Bollandistes, j’espère que ce message vous trouve en bonne santé physique et spirituelle. Ici, malgré les restrictions dues à la pandémie, notre Société a pu mener à bien ses diverses activités. Nos publications, comme vous le...

Newsletter 6 from the Bollandist Society December 2020

Message from our Director Dear Friends of the Bollandists, I hope you are all well in these difficult times. Here, despite the limitations caused by the pandemic, our Society was able to carry on with its various activities. Scholars’ access to our library had to be...

Newsletter 5 de la Société des Bollandistes, mai 2020

Le mot du Directeur Chers amis des Bollandistes, Les Bollandistes sont parfois assimilés à des moines… Il est vrai qu’ils font un « travail de bénédictins » et qu’ils qualifient même leur salle de travail de scriptorium ! Mais en fait, en temps normal, notre...

Newsletter 5 de la Société des Bollandistes, May 2020

Message from our Director Dear Friends of the Bollandists, The Bollandists are sometimes likened to monks ... It is true that our painstaking work resembles that of a Benedictine and that we even refer to our workroom as a scriptorium!But in fact, in normal times, our...

Newsletter 4 de la Société des Bollandistes, décembre 2019

Le mot du Directeur Chers amis des Bollandistes, Jusqu’il y a peu, le directeur de la Société des Bollandistes exerçait aussi la fonction de président. Dans un souci de plus grande efficacité, les rôles ont été distingués et un président a été élu par...

Newsletter 4 de la Société des Bollandistes, December 2019

Message from our Director Dear Friends of the Bollandists, Until recently, the Director of the Société des Bollandistes also held the position of President. However, in order to be more effective, our General Assembly elected Fr. Mark Rotsaert, a well-known...

Newsletter 3 de la Société des Bollandistes, juin 2019

Le mot du Directeur Chers amis des Bollandistes, Je vous écris un samedi matin alors que je me trouve seul dans notre bibliothèque. Cette semaine a passé, plus rapide encore que la précédente, chaque jour apportant son lot d’activités les plus diverses. Il y a...

Newsletter 3, June 2019

Message from our Director Dear friends of the Bollandists, It is Saturday morning and I am alone in our library writing these lines. The week has passed even faster than the previous one with each day bringing its variety of activities. Just a few years ago, there...

Analecta Bollandiana, 136 II (2018): Contents

Cécile LANÉRY, Un légendier de Cologne conservé dans une collection privée: analyse et commentaire. The manuscript described and analyzed in this study (copy code number: Paris, IRHT, CP 438) belongs to private collectors. It is a twelfth-century legendary, coming...

Newsletter 2, November 2018

Message from our Director For the Bollandists, All Saints is of course the feast. What better time of year to send our warm greetings to our many friends and benefactors all around the world. Sometimes a visitor asks me if we know the precise number of...

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