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Bollandists , group of Jesuits in Belgium, named for their early leader, Jean Bolland, a Flemish Jesuit of the 17th cent. They were charged by the Holy See with compiling an authoritative edition of the lives of the saints, the monumental Acta sanctorum, which is still in progress.

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Bollandists. The Jesuit editors of the ‘Acta Sanctorum’, so called after John van Bolland (1596–1665), the founder and first editor of the work.

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Bollandists. A small group of Belgian Jesuit scholars of hagiology. It was begun by John van Bolland (1596–1665) to publish the Acta Sanctorum, a massive critical collection of the lives of Christian saints.

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