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Alban Butler

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Alban Butler 1710–73, English Roman Catholic priest, compiler of lives of the saints. He was educated at Douai and was president of the English seminary at Saint-Omer. His monumental work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints (4 vol. in 7, 1756–59), was the basis for the enlarged edition, The Lives of the Saints (12 vol., 1926–38), and for the completely revised work, Butler's Lives of the Saints (ed. by Herbert Thurston, S.J., and Donald Attwater, 4 vol., 1956), which is a standard, popular reference book.

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Butler, Alban

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Butler, Alban (1710–73), author of the work commonly known as The Lives of the Saints (1756–9). The lives are arranged according to the Church calendar. Butler was a mission priest in England (1746–66), and then President of the English College at St-Omer.

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