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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 (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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