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BOLANDUS

Volume 2 · 60 words · 1778 Edition

(John), a famous Jesuit, born at Tillemont in the Netherlands, in 1596. He distinguished himself by writing the lives of the saints, under the title of Acta Sanctorum, of which he published five volumes in folio; but died while he was labouring at the fifth, in the 70th year of his age. The continuators of that work are called Bolandists.