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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints

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Also known as: ā€œButler’s Lives of the Saintsā€, ā€œLives of the Saintsā€(Show More)
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  • Alban Butler, detail from an engraving by J.W. Cook, 18th century.
    Alban Butler

    His monumental achievement, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 4 vol. (1756–59), was considered a sound, critical, and authoritative work. Containing more than 1,600 hagiographies, it went through many editions. It was revised by Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater in Butler’s Lives of the…

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    His monumental achievement, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 4 vol. (1756–59), was considered a sound, critical, and authoritative work. Containing more than 1,600 hagiographies, it went through many editions. It was revised by Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater in Butler’s Lives of the…

    Read More