by XL | Apr 17, 2018 | AB_Contents, News
Anna LAMPADARIDI. L’histoire de saint Porphyre de Gaza de la Vita aux notices du Synax. CP. The compilators of the notices on St. Porphyry of Gaza in the ms. Patmiacus 266 (P) and in the recensions H*, S* (and M*) of the Synax. CP draw on the Vita brevior BHG...
by XL | Apr 13, 2018 | AB_Contents, News
Cécile LANÉRY. Le dossier des saints Nazaire, Celse, Gervais et Protais. Édition de la Passion BHL 6043 (= 3516). The martyrs Nazarius, Celsus, Gervasius and Protasius of Milan, whose relics were discovered at the end of the fourth century in two successive...
by XL | Apr 13, 2018 | AB_Contents, News
Le Père Joseph van der Straeten (1918-2010). Bibliographie de Joseph van der Straeten. Paolo TOMEA. Corpore quidem iuvencula sed animo cana. La Passio Agnetis BHL 156 e il topos della puella senex nell’agiografia mediolatina. After having dealt with the date...
by Marc Lindeijer | Mar 9, 2018 | News
A question to identify some ancient relics brought two of us in the vault of a bank in Brussels. There, St Nicholas Church, in the same town, keeps its most valued treasures: relics of course, but also golden chalices, silver censers, and the bejeweled crowns that...
by Marc Lindeijer | Feb 6, 2018 | News
“Blending in” is one way to translate inculturation, the missionary strategy of the Jesuits. It enabled them to move just as efficacious in the Chinese emperor’s Forbidden City as in the French king’s palace at Versailles. But what about “defacing”? To enter the...
by Irini de Saint Sernin | Nov 29, 2017 | News
Though Christmas is not yet behind us, we are already spring-cleaning and re-organizing our collections in the Bollandist library. The beauty of the task is coming across our forgotten treasures, re-discovering them, holding them, opening them. In a library with more...
