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Alban Butler

Born

in Northamptonshire, The United Kingdom

October 13, 1710

Died

May 15, 1773

Genre

Hagiography, Catholicism

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Alban Butler was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer.

Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives"), the result of thirty years study, was first published in four volumes in London, 1756–1759. It is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum, exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best compendium of Acta in English. Butler's magnum opus has passed many editions and translations. ...more

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	Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year 4.22 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1750 — 154 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated – The Authoritative Reference on Christian Patron Biographies by Alban Butler, Michael Walsh 4.03 avg rating — 62 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hundred Saints: Their Lives and Likenesses Drawn from Butler's Lives of the Saints and Great Works of Western Art 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butler's Lives of the Saints, Complete Edition: January, February, March (Volume I) by Alban Butler, Herbert Thurston (Editor), Donald Attwater (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1756 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vida dos Mártires by Alban Butler, Gabriel Ceroni Lied (tradutor) 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butler’s Lives of the Saints: Supplement of New Saints and Blesseds - New Full Edition by Alban Butler, Paul Burns 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints: Volume I 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butler's Lives of the Saints: July: New Full Edition (Volume 7) by Alban Butler (Editor), Peter Doyle 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Butler's Lives of the Saints (4 books)
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Donald Attwater (Editor)

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“His cousit. Roland, who followed him with the rear of his army, in his return was set upon in the Pyrenean mountains by a troop of Gascon robbers, and slain; and is the famous hero of numberless old French romances and songs”
― Alban Butler, The Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition

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“329 A maxim which he frequently repeats is, that the knowledge of ourselves is the necessary and only step by which we can ascend to the knowledge and love of God.”
― Alban Butler, The Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition

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“Among his ordinary remarkable sayings, we read that he often repeated to bishop Camus, “That truth must be always charitable; for bitter zeal does harm instead of good”
― Alban Butler, The Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition

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