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ALBAN BUTLER (1710-1773)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 881 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBAN See also:BUTLER (1710-1773)  , See also:English See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:priest and hagiologist, was See also:born in See also:Northampton on the 24th of See also:October 1710 . He was educated at the English See also:college, See also:Douai, where on his ordination to the priesthood he held successively the chairs of See also:philosophy and divinity . He laboured for some See also:time as a missionary priest in See also:Staffordshire, held several positions as See also:tutor to See also:young Roman Catholic noblemen, and was finally appointed See also:president of the English See also:seminary at St Omer, where he remained till his See also:death on the 15th of May 1773 . See also:Butler's See also:great See also:work, The Lives of the See also:Saints, the result of See also:thirty years' study (4 vols., See also:London, 1756–1759), has passed through many See also:editions and See also:translations (best edition, including valuable notes, See also:Dublin, 12 vols . 1779–1780) . It is a popular and compendious See also:reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum, exhibiting great See also:industry and See also:research, and is in all respects the best work of its See also:kind in English literature . See An See also:Account of the See also:Life of A . B. by C . B., i.e. by his See also:nephew See also:Charles Butler (London, 1799) ; and See also:Joseph See also:Gillow's See also:Bibliographical See also:Dictionary of English Catholics, vol. i .

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