"With the developments attained by all branches of science in the course of the last century, the importance of archæological discoveries in that period, the progress of philology and palæography, the possibility of using means of rapid communication to obviate the difficulty of scattered material, hagiography could not but take a new orientation."
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Hippolyte Delehaye
Hippolyte Delehaye (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit.
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