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‘The Science of the Saints’:1 The Spirituality of Butler's Lives of the Saints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

J. A. Hilton
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Recent work on the history of post-Reformation English Catholicism has emphasised the central importance of spirituality but has shown that devotion, like the English Catholic community itself, has been continually changing. Challoner's works, especially his Garden of the Soul, dominated the later eighteenth century but, though the title remained popular, the contents suffered revision. However, the contemporary work of his collaborator, Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, with its meditation on each feast-day, remained virtually intact from its publication in 1756-59 until 1956.

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British Catholic History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 189 - 193
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1979

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Meditations, Preface.

References

Notes

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3 C.B., p. xxiv.

4 Gillow, vol. 1, pp. 353-4; Thurstan and Attwater, Butler's Lives, vol. 1, p. v.Google Scholar

5 Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 3, p. 90; Gillow, vol. 1, pp. 350-4; Anstruther, vol. 4, pp. 52-53; C.B., pp. i-xlvii.

6 Bossy, Catholic Community, p. 366; Davies, Worship and Theology, vol. 4, pp. 22-25.

7 Lives, 29/1.

8 Lives, Preface.

9 Meditations, Friday after Second Sunday in Lent; Lives, 20/3, 28/3, 9/6, 31/7, 3/8, 19/8, 15/10.

10 C.B., pp. xxxv-xxxviii.

11 C.B., p. iii.

12 Lives, 20/1, 27/1, 8/2, 25/2, 30/3, 12/4, 17/5, 10/6, 19/6, 23/6, 24/6, 25/6, 30/6, 9/7, 11/7, 27/7, 13/8, 15/8, 19/8, 28/8, 24/9, 1st Sunday/10, 1/11, 3/11, 18/11, 20/12.

13 C.B., p. xxxix; Acts, ch. 20, v. 9; Lives, 30/6.

14 Lives, 27/11.

15 Meditations, Preface.

16 Aveling, Handle and Axe, pp. 310, 351; C.B., pp. xli-xlii; Lives, 25/3, 19/4, 6/6, 5/8, 8/9.

17 Meditations, Preface; Lives, 14/3, 14/4.

18 Lives, 25/10.

19 Aveling, Handle and Axe, pp. 252-321.

20 Lives, 23/3.

21 C.B., pp. xxix-xxx; Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, p. 348.Google Scholar

22 Lives, 8/3.

23 Lives, 12/6.

24 Lives, 15/3.

25 Lives, 30/11.

26 C.B., p. iii.

27 Lives, 23/4.

28 Lives, 4/2.

29 Lives, 7/2.

30 C.B., p. xxvii.

31 Lives, 6/4.

32 Lives, 17/1.

33 Lives, 16/1.

34 Lives, 1/6.

35 Lives, 12/10.

36 Lives, 7/1, 15/11.

37 Lives, 18/9.

38 Lives, 16/9, 2/12.

39 Lives, 7/3.

40 Lives, 27/3.

41 C.B., p. xlii.

42 Lives, 13/2.

43 C.B., pp. xxix-xxxiv.

44 Lives, 24/2.

45 Lives, 22/6.

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47 Lives, 9/4.