• (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the `Acta Sanctorum`, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
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Bol'land·ists noun plural The Jesuit editors of the 'Acta Sanctorum', or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.
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Bollandists are the society of Jesuits which published the Actca Sanctorum, a collection of lives of the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. They received this name from John Bolland who died in 1665, and who edited the first five volumes from materials already accumulated by Heribert Rosweyd, a Flemish Jesuit who died in 1629. The society was fir...
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