Raphael Badius was a
Florentine Dominican of the seventeenth century.
Overview
Badius was versed in
Tuscan and Florentine antiquities, and his researches made him conversant with matters of
history and
hagiography
A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...
. He rendered assistance to the
Jesuit
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Fathers,
Godfrey Henschen and
Papebroch
Daniel Papebroch, S.J., (17 March 1628 – 28 June 1714) was a Flemish Jesuit hagiographer, one of the Bollandists. He was a leading revisionist figure, bringing historical criticism to bear on traditions of saints of the Catholic Church.
Life ...
, in their labours on the ''
Acta Sanctorum'', as they themselves acknowledge.
As Chronicler of the Convent of
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, he was also known to the historian and bibliographer
Cinellus, who makes frequent mention of the learned Dominican's knowledge of the literature and writers of Florence. In 1681, he was Dean of the
University of Florence.
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References
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Quétif-
Échard, ''Scriptores Ord. Proed.'' (Paris, 1721), II, 741)
Italian Dominicans
17th-century Italian historians
17th-century Italian Christian monks
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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