Bollandist

Society of Bollandists
Société des Bollandistes
Named afterJean Bolland
PurposeHagiographic research
President
Mark Rotsaert
Websitehttps://bollandistes.org/

The Society of Bollandists (Latin: Societas Bollandistarum; French: Société des Bollandistes) is an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity. Their most important publication has been the Acta Sanctorum (The Acts of the Saints). They are named after the Flemish Jesuit Jean Bolland (1596–1665).

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