Hippolyte Delehaye - The Legends of the Saints

New York, Fordham University Press, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 252p. Ex-library hardcover book and dustjacket in good condition. Old library markings including spine label, stamps on title page, glue residue where endpaper pocket removed. Text is clean and complete, tight and unmarked. Excellent reading copy. Delehaye was a leading member of the Bollandists, the Jesuit scholars charged with making offical Church records of the lives of the saints. He discusses the challenges of being a saint's biographer and handling a myriad of ancient texts of varying credibility. First written in 1905, this English translation by Donald Attwater includes a memoir of his life by Paul Peeters. O. Fair .

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