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  WELCOME! THE BOLLANDISTS  ~ Part III ~ Coudenberg's chapel and abbey church, 1695 ⬅️ The Bollandists, Part II This favourable attitude of the Government resulted, after various tiresome conferences, in the removal, in 1778, of the Bollandists and the historiographers of Belgium, together with their libraries, to the abbey of Caudenberg, at Brussels. Each of the, Bollandists was to receive an annual pension of 800 florins, besides the 500 florins to be given to the community of Caudenberg in payment for their board and lodging. The same indulgence was accorded to Ghesquière in consideration of his office of historian. The results of the sale of the volumes were to be divided between the abbey and the editors on condition that the abbey should take charge of the matter on hand, and provide a copyist to make fair copies of manuscripts for the printers, as well as religious who should be trained under the direction or the elder Bollandists for the continuation of the work. The other

  WELCOME! THE BOLLANDISTS  ~ Part I ~ Acta sanctorum, January volume, published in 1643 The Bollandists were an association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum . This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth century, and continued to our own day. The collaborators are called Bollandists, as being successors of Bolland, the editor of the first volume. Although Bolland has given his name to the work, he is not to be regarded as its founder.  The idea was first conceived by Heribert Rosweyde (died at Antwerp, 1629). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1588 and explored the libraries of the numerous monasteries scattered through Hainault and French Flanders. He copied with his own hand a vast number of documents relating to church history in general, and to hagiography in particular, and found in the old texts contained in the manuscripts coming under his observation quite a different flavour from that of the rev

  WELCOME! THE BOLLANDISTS  ~ Part II ~ Daniel van Papenbroek (Papebroch) ⬅️ The Bollandists, Part I At this time, the hagiographers were joined by a new companion, who was to accompany Henschen on his journey. This was Father Daniel van Papenbroeck, better known under the slightly altered form of Papebroch (died 1714). He entered the Society in 1646, after having been, like Henschen, a brilliant pupil of Bolland's in the course of the humanities. He had just completed his thirty-first year when he was called on, in 1659, to give himself entirely to the work of hagiography, in which he was to have a remarkably long and fruitful career, for it lasted till his death, which occurred in the eighty-seventh year of his age, and the fifty-fifth of his work in this field. At the same time that they appointed Papebroch a collaborator to Bolland and Henschen, the superiors of the order, at the instance of important persons who wished the publication of the "Acta Sanctorum" hastened