The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Fathers Jean-Baptiste Boone, Joseph Van der Moere, and ProsperCoppens, to whom was added, in the course of thesame year. Father Joseph Van Hecke. The provin-cial, in behalf of these Fathers, asked free access topublic libraries and archives, and the privilege oftaking home with them from the Library of Bour-gogne and the Royal Library, such manuscripts andboolcs as they would need for reference in the courseof their work. Both requests were imm
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Fathers Jean-Baptiste Boone, Joseph Van der Moere, and ProsperCoppens, to whom was added, in the course of thesame year. Father Joseph Van Hecke. The provin-cial, in behalf of these Fathers, asked free access topublic libraries and archives, and the privilege oftaking home with them from the Library of Bour-gogne and the Royal Library, such manuscripts andboolcs as they would need for reference in the courseof their work. Both requests were immediatelygranted. Moreover, an annual subsidy was prom-ised, which was fixed in May, 1837, at 6,000 subsidy was continued from year to year un-der the different govermnents, both Catholic andLiberal, which succeeded to power, until the parlia-mentary session of 1868, in the course of which theLiberal majority of the Chamber of Deputies cut itout of the budget. It has never been new hagiographers began by drawing upa list of the saints whose acts or notices remainedto be published, that is to say, those who are hon-. OoixEGE OP Saint-Michel, Betfssels to induce them toBut the attempts It was then learnedhad been formed Bollandists as were still living,resume their task once more,were futile. Matters rested here until a hagiographical societyin France under the patronage of several bishopsand of M. Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction,and that it especially proposed to itself the resump-tion of the work of the Bollandists. The chief pro-moter of the enterprise, Abb6 Theodore Perrin, ofLaval, came to Belgium that same year, 1836, tosolicit the support of the Government and the col-laboration of Belgian savants. He did not meetwith the reception he had hoped for. On the con-trary, it aroused indignation in Belgium that a workwhich had come to be regarded as a national gloryshould pass into the hands of the French. The Abb6de Ram, Rector Mag
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