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...