Director of the Society, a historian and a specialist in Latin hagiography mainly from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and in the hagiography of Italy. He is responsible for the Western/Latin sector of the research, as well as director of the Bollandist library. He also teaches hagiography at the Gregorian University in Rome.
Studied history at Louvain University (Louvain-la-Neuve), and theology at the Institut d’Études Théologiques in Brussels. In addition to his research activity, he is the archivist for the Society of Bollandists.
Studied Greek, Latin and Oriental philology at Louvain University (Louvain-la-Neuve). His main field of research is Byzantine hagiography and literary exchanges between Orient and Occident.
François De Vriendt (° 1968). He studied history and art history at the Universities of Louvain and Namur. He is mainly interested in Latin hagiographic texts from the Low Countries, and in the history of devotions (relics, rituals, iconography) to saints in Hainaut and Brabant from the Middle Ages to Modern times. He is member of…
Studied Classical and Byzantine philology at the University of Padua, Sorbonne University and Louvain University (KU Leuven). His main field of research is Byzantine theology, pilgrimage literature and Christian Arabic literature. He is the editor-in-chief of the Bollandist publications.
Studied Russian Language and Literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL (UK). Post-Graduate Diploma in East-West Trade Studies from the University of Westminster Master’s Degree in Western Literature from the Catholic University of Leuven Trained in Corporate and Private Banking
Graduated in accounting & Belgian Taxation at CBC (Chambre Belge des Comptables, Brussels), I worked several years in finance in the corporate world.
Studied history and ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) at the University of Namur and the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). In his role as a librarian, he oversees the management of the Bollandist Library’s printed resources, which include books and periodicals, along with the catalogues that house their listings.
Emeritus professor of Christian archaeology and former Librarian in Chief at the Pontifical Gregorian University.