Bollandist
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any member of an association of scholars, originally all Jesuits, who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.
Etymology
From Bolland + -ist, after the founder Jean Bolland (1596-1665).
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