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...example, contains one article on the Bollandists' current favorite topic. St. Martin of Tours, plus others on such minutiae as an early Swedish manuscript dealing with Persian saints and a papyrus describing the life of St. Phileas. Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies. But no volume of the Acta series has been released since 1940, and Bollandist Father Joseph van der Straeten admits that "no one can say when...
...Philomena, whose authenticity was questioned by the Bollandists as far back as 1940. The society's conclusions are not always welcome: in 1695, the Carmelites were so outraged at Bollandist doubts about the order's clouded early history that they persuaded the Spanish Inquisition to ban the Acta as heretical...
...confused with the Vatican's daily Osservatore Romano (circ. 50,000), which contains both official and unofficial views. The official Vatican organ, which runs only official texts, is the Acta Apostolicae Sedis...
...soon be as easy and inexpensive as renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...holds the B.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the University of London. Chalmers is editor-in-chief of the journal, Acta Metallurgica, and the year-book, Progress in Metal Physical...