''Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae'' is the abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints by the
Franciscan
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John Colgan
John Colgan, OFM (Irish ''Seán Mac Colgan''; c. 1592 – 15 January 1658), was an Irish Franciscan friar noted as a hagiographer and historian.
Life
Colgan was born c. 1592 at Priestown near Carndonagh. He joined the Franciscan Order and w ...
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Leuven
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, 1645).
Aided by Father
Hugh Ward, O.F.M., Father
Stephen White, S.J., and Brother
Míchél Ó Cléirigh, O.F.M., Colgan sedulously collected enormous material for the ''
Lives
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'' of the Irish Saints, and at length, after thirty years of sifting and digesting his materials, put to press his ''Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae'', a portion of the expense of which was defrayed by
Hugh O'Reilly (Archbishop of Armagh)
Hugh O'Reilly ( ga, Aodh Ó Raghallaigh; c.1580–1653) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Kilmore from 1625 to 1628 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1628 to 1653.
He was the son of Honora and Mulmore O'Rei ...
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The first volume, covering 270 lives of Irish saints (except Brigid and Patrick) for the months of January, February, and March, was intended to be the third volume of the ''Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Ireland'', but only one volume was printed at Leuven in 1645.
A replica was produced in Dublin in 1948.
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, Dublin''. Reflex facsimiles, Irish Manuscript Commission 5. Dublin: Ordnance Survey, 1948. 906 pp. Facsimile
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edition of the book (Leuven: De Witte, 1645), with an introduction by Brendan Jennings.
References
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External links
Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae
Christian hagiography