Jean Bolland (Latin Johannes Bollandus) (August 18th 1596, Tirlemont, Duchy of Brabant - September 12th 1665, Antwerp was a Flemish Jesuit and hagiographer. Bolland compiled five vols. of the Lives of the Saints called Acta Sanctorum, which was continued by others, called after him Bollandists. Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders June 3 - The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp) in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to a number of triptychs by Renaissance Belgian painter Rubens. ... Acta Sanctorum (Acts of the Saints) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, which is organised according to each saints feast day. ... The Bollandists are an association of Jesuit scholars publishing the Acta Sanctorum (the Lives of the Saints). ...

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