Acta Sanctorum

[ ahk-tah sahngk-tawr-oom ]

noun

1. a collection of the biographies of the Christian saints and martyrs, edited by the Bollandists and arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar.

Example Sentences

Eco found himself in the library in front of the "Acta Sanctorum."

From Los Angeles Times

The Jesuit editors of the ½Acta Sanctorum¸, or Lives of the Saints; Ð named from John Bolland, who began the work.

From Project Gutenberg

Open the Acta Sanctorum for the 1st of May, and they will tell you that the monks of Triers had enchased in silver the skull of St. Theodulf, out of which they administered fever-drink to the sick.

From Project Gutenberg

Some account of him will be found in the Aberdeen Breviary, in the Acta Sanctorum, March, vol. ii. p.

From Project Gutenberg

Martyrum, the early accounts of the martyrs; Acta Sanctorum, a general name for collections of accounts of saints and martyrs, especially of the great collection of the Bollandists, begun in 1643, interrupted in 1794 at the fifty-third vol.

From Project Gutenberg