Butler's ORIGINAL Lives of the Saints - Complete Set January - December

By Fr. Alban Butler

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Rev. Alban Butler's ORIGINAL Lives of the Saints - Complete Seven Volume Set

January to December plus Appendices etc. - Hardcover - Illustrated - 5100 pages

Very few published works require such a lengthy explanation of exactly WHICH edition is being offered, in what format, and why, than Fr. Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints. The reason is that there are so many very different books being printed under this author’s name and under this title due to it’s long history (the work is almost 300 years old) and its universal popularity. Few Catholic books except the Bible, the Confessions of St. Augustine, the Imitation of Christ, and the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, are as widely read. This book has also been extensively revised, altered, and updated since its original publication, with new editions, even 21st century revisions being made, that we feel the time is ripe for an original, unexpurgated, and unrevised print version to be made available.

This edition is widely considered to be the most complete and authoritative ever issued. It is the 1854 edition of D. J. Sadlier of New York, and in the Preface it gives its “pedigree.” The original was printed anonymously in London in 1759, after 30 years work on the project. The edition published by Sadlier is an exact replica of the Dublin and London edition of 1833. Being a scholarly work, but also a work deeply imbued with the piety and devotion of a priest’s lifetime effort, it is loaded with footnotes which comprise a significant proportion of the total text. In the original book, the footnotes were printed in such a small, closely-set typeface, that they were almost unreadable.

Loreto Publications has utilized the recent development of OCR scanning to extract the original text and to put it into a modern, highly readable, and much larger font typeface than any of the old editions. We have extensively proofread the text thus generated, and have made the layout “user friendly” as the moderns so succinctly state. In addition, our already available edition of Butler’s Little Pictorial Lives—which is a drastic abridgment of this original edition to one volume, illustrated, with one saint and one image for each day of the year—has provided us with 365 beautiful 19th century engravings which we have added to this original un-illustrated text.

Loreto has made a few corrections of obvious typographical errors and has slightly altered some capitalization rubrics and some spellings, but we have has refrained from alterations to the text. We are certain that our readers will appreciate these volumes for their piety, beauty, and comprehensive scholarship.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Approbation
Publisher’s Note
Preface to the Last Dublin Edition
The Life and Writings of the Rev. Alban Butler
Preface
An Introductory Discourse
The Circumcision of Our Lord
St. Fulgentius
St. Odilo
St. Almachus
St. Eugendus
St. Fanchea
S. Mochua
St. Mochua of Bella
St. Macarius of Alexandria
St. Concordius
St. Adalard
St. Peter Balsam
St. Anterus
St. Gordius
St. Genevieve
St. Titus
St. Gregory
St. Rigobert
St. Rumon
St. Simeon Stylites
St. Telesphorus
St. Syncletica
The Epiphany of Our Lord
St. Melanius
St. Nilammon
St. Peter, Abbot
St. Lucian
St. Cedd
St. Kentigerna
St. Aldric
St. Thillo
St. Canut
St. Apollinaris
St. Severinus
St. Lucian
St. Pega
St. Vulsin
St. Gudula
St. Nathalan
St. Peter of Sebaste
Sts. Julian and Basilissa
St. Marciana
St. Brithwald
St. Felan
St. Adrian
St. Vaneng
St. William
St. Agatho
St. Marcian,
St. Theodosius
St. Hyginus
St. Egwin
St. Salvius
St. Arcadius
St. Benedict Biscop
Tygrius,
St. Aelred
St. Veronica of Milan
St. Kentigern
St. Hilary
St. Felix of Nola
Sts. Isaias and Sabbas
St. Barbasceminus and Sixteen of His Clergy
St. Paul The First Hermit
St. Maurus
St. Main
St. John Calybite
St. Isidore of Alexandria
St. Isidore, Hermit
St. Bonitus
St. Ita
St. Marcellus
St. Macarius the Elder
St. Honoratus
St. Fursey
Five Friars
St. Henry
St. Antony, Abbot
Sts. Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus
St. Sulpicius the Pious
St. Sulpicius II
St. Milgithe
St. Nennius
St. Peter’s Chair at Rome
Sts. Paul and Thirty-Six Companions
St. Prisca
St. Deicolus
St. Ulfrid
Sts. Maris, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum
St. Canutus
St. Henry Archbishop of Upsal
St. Wulstan
St. Blaithmaic
St. Lomer
St. Fabian
St. Sebastian
St. Euthymius
St. Fechin
St. Agnes
St. Fructuosus and His Companions
St. Vimin
St. Publius
St. Epiphanius
St. Vincent
St. Anastasius
St. Raymund of Pennafort
St. John the Almoner
St. Emerentia
St. Clement of Ancyra
St. Agathangelus
St. Ildefonsus
St. Eusebius
St. Timothy
St. Babylas
St. Suranus
St. Macedonius
St. Cadocus
The Conversion of St. Paul
Sts. Juventinus and Maximinus
St. Projectus
St. Poppo
St. Apollo
St. Publius
St. Polycarp
St. Paula
St. Conon
St. John Chrysostom
On The Writings of St. John Chrysostom
St. Julian
St. Marius
St. Cyril of Alexandria
St. Agnes
Sts. Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus
St. John of Reomay
Bl. Margaret
St. Paulinus
Bl. Charlemagne
St. Glastian of Scotland
St. Francis of Sales
St. Sulpicius Severus
St. Gildas
St. Gildas the Albanian
St. Bathildes
St. Martina
St. Aldegondes
St. Barsimaeus
St. Peter Nolasco
St. Serapion
Sts. Cyrus and John
St. Marcella
St. Maidoc