Charles De Smedt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Jesuit priest, hagiographer
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Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium
About Charles De Smedt
- Charles De Smedt S.J.
- (6 April 1833, Ghent, Belgium – 4 March 1911, Brussels) was a Belgian Jesuit priest and hagiographer.
- He was a Bollandist, and is noted for having introduced critical historical methods into Catholic hagiography, so that it became a collection of accounts of the accretion of legends, as well as the compilation of original materials.
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