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...College de St. Michel, do most of their work in their own five-tiered, 320,000-volume library. The society's leader is Father Maurice Coens, 70, a soft-spoken expert on medieval German saints and a Bollandist for 35 years. Prospective next member is Michel van Esbroeck, 28, a specialist in Near Eastern languages who was assigned to the society by his Jesuit superiors two years ago on a trial basis. His apprenticeship will not be brief. "If all goes well," says one veteran Bollandist, "it will take at least ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Who's Who of Saints | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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