
961 p. This Supplement, which is nearly as voluminous as the BHL(Subsidia hagiographica 6) contains some two hundred “new” saints, i.e. those who are not found in the original edition, to which it adds some 2650 entries. To avoid changing the original numbering, these supplementary entries are denoted by the addition of letters (a, b,…
221 p. A selection of 14 hitherto unpublished Greek texts accompanied by French translations. In addition to the Lives of St Theophylactus of Nicomedia and of St Thomais of Lesbos , for example, there are a great number of Passions of martyrs. These texts are of interest above all for the history of literature and…
XXXVII-77 p. At the invitation of the Schlumberger Foundation, H. Delehaye gave these three papers at the Collège de France in 1935. Although addressed to a wider public, these papers contain the experience acquired by the author in his 45 years as a Bollandist, and constitute, as it were, his intellectual testament.
197 p. This work contains six previously unpublished texts of Byzantine hagiography: 1. the Eulogy of St. Horeozele by Constantine Acropolites (BHG 2180); 2. the Passion of Philetairos and Eubiotos (BHG 1515a); 3. the Legend of three brother-martyrs of Lentini, Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus (BHG 62a); 4. a Greek Passion of St. Cecilia (BHG 283c);…
128 p. Two early witnesses, Basil of Caesarea and the Syriac and Hieronymian martyrologies mention the martyr Athenogenos, chorepiscopus of the town of Pedachthoe (today Bedohtun), a victim of the Diocletian persecution. Hitherto there was only the short epic Passion BHG 197, published in 1987. With this work we now have the publication, together with…
XVI-296 p., 1 map (46 x 40 cm).