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Andrew Jackson delivering a speech while on his way to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration in 1829. From Harper's Weekly, 1881.

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Daniel van Papenbroeck

Belgian clergyman

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contribution to “Acta Sanctorum”

In Bollandist
From 1659 Daniel van Papenbroeck, perhaps the outstanding Bollandist, collaborated. This is considered the golden age of the group.
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study of diplomatics

In diplomatics: Post-Renaissance scholarship
Daniel van Papenbroeck, a member of the Jesuit commission known as the Bollandists (from another member, Jean Bolland), which was charged with the publication of the Acta Sanctorum (“Acts of the Saints,”), finding that some monastic documents he inspected were forgeries, assumed (1675) that this…
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