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| Of all the parts of history, biography, which describes the lives of great men, seems the most entertaining and the most instructive and improving. |
| —An Introductory Discourse |
Rev. Alban
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| The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints |
| Compiled from Original Monuments and Authentic Records |
| In Twelve Volumes |
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| Rev. Alban Butler |
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| While these 1,458 entries are composed from a distinctly 18th-century Catholic perspective, Alban’s syntheses of multitudinous histories result in an enlightenment of the ecclesiastical side of Western cultural development, with particular emphasis on the early Christian era. |
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| CONTENTS |
| Bibliographic Record Preface Introductory Discourse |
DUBLIN: JAMES DUFFY, 1866
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010 |
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| Alphabetic Index to All Saints |
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| Chronologic Index with Major Feast Days |
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| Volume Indexes by Feast Day |
| I. | | January |
| II. | | February |
| III. | | March |
| IV. | | April |
| V. | | May |
| VI. | | June |
| VII. | | July |
| VIII. | | August |
| IX. | | September |
| X. | | October |
| XI. | | November |
| XII. | | December |
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| Featured Entries |
| Ambrose, Anselm, Antony, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil the Great, Benedict, Bernard, Bonaventure, Boniface, Charles Borromeo, Cyril, Cyprian, Dominic, Ephrem, Francis of Assisium, Francis of Sales, Francis Xavier, Gregory the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, Ignatius of Antioch, Ignatius of Loyola, Irenæus, James, Jerom, John Chrysostom, John the Evangelist, Justin, Leo the Great, Lewis, Martin, Mary Magdalen, Patrick, Paul, Perpetua, Peter, Teresa, Thomas of Aquino, Thomas Becket, Vincent of Paul |
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