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Bollandists

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Bol´land`ists
n. pl.1.The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; - named from John Bolland, who began the work.


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Stow's Bollandists see the victims of Jewish ritual murders as surrogates for the Eucharist, which Jews were always trying to violate.
00 Hardcover Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture BM585 Stow, a historian long with the University of Haifa, traces the roots of the 800-year belief in the ritual killing by Jews of Christian children that lie behind histories written by Jesuit Bollandists of Antwerp, and Louvain during the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
For Dominic, see Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur, published by the Bollandists (hereafter abbreviated AASS), August, 1, 405; for Anthony of Padua, see RaphaelM.
 
 
 
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