Bollandist
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From Bolland + -ist, after the founder Jean Bolland (1596-1665).
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