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basilides-and-gerontius | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/basilides-and-gerontius.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Basilides and Gerontius | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON STS. BASILIDES AND GERONTIUS,
Martyrs mentioned among the Greeks.
[Commentary]
Basilides, Martyr, reported by the Greeks (Saint)
Gerontius, Martyr, reported by the Greeks (Saint)
D. P.
From the Greek Menaea printed at Venice, and the Synaxarion, in the manuscript of our Pierre-François Chifflet at Dijon, it b... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
ctesiphon | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/ctesiphon.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Ctesiphon | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON ST. CTESIPHON, BISHOP, OF VERGIUM IN SPAIN.
FIRST CENTURY.
[Commentary]
Ctesiphon, Bishop, of Vergium in Spain (Saint)
D. P.
[1] Usuard inserted into his Martyrology the common commemoration of the first seven Apostles and Bishops of Spain, and from him Baronius placed it in the Roman Martyrology on May 15. [C... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
dodolinus | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/dodolinus.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Dodolinus | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT DODOLINUS,
Bishop of Vienne in Gaul.
SEVENTH CENTURY.
[Commentary]
Dodolinus, Bishop of Vienne, in Gaul (Saint)
G. H.
[1] The Synod of Chalon was held in Gaul under King Clovis II: but in what year of his reign, is not clear. It is referred by Sirmond to the year 650: who in the Notes teaches that it wa... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
gilbert | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/gilbert.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Gilbert | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT GILBERT
Bishop of Caithness in Scotland.
ABOUT THE YEAR 1240.
[Preface]
Gilbert, Bishop of Caithness, in Scotland (St.)
G. H.
[1] Caithness is the last Northern province in the kingdom of Scotland, very near to the Orkney Islands, under which formerly were also contained the neighboring provinces of Sut... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
hugh | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/hugh.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Hugh | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT HUGH,
Bishop of Grenoble in Gaul.
THE YEAR 1132.
[Preface]
Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble, in Gaul (Saint)
G. H.
[1] Among the illustrious men who flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries of Christ with the extraordinary splendor of sanctity, Saint Hugh can be reckoned, Bishop of Grenoble in upper Dauphiné; ... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
ingeniana | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/ingeniana.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Ingeniana | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON STS. INGENIANA, SATURNINUS, PARTHENIUS, DIONYSIUS, PANTERUS, AND ALEXANDER,
Martyrs at Thessalonica.
[Commentary]
Ingeniana, Martyr at Thessalonica (Saint)
Saturninus, Martyr at Thessalonica (Saint)
Parthenius, Martyr at Thessalonica (Saint)
Dionysius, Martyr at Thessalonica (Saint)
Panterus, Martyr at Thess... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
john | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/john.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | John | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT JOHN,
Bishop of Naples.
THE YEAR 853.
[Preface]
John, Bishop of Naples (Saint)
BY G. H.
[1] Bartolomeo Chioccarello, in *The Prelates of Naples*, asserts on page 86, that in early times, by the Church of Naples and of certain neighboring cities, [The ancient cult April 1,] the feast of Saint John, Bisho... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
leuconius | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/leuconius.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Leuconius | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT LEUCONIUS,
Bishop of Troyes in Gaul.
ABOUT 665.
[Commentary]
Leuconius, Bishop of Troyes, in Gaul (Saint)
BY G. H.
Troyes, or of the Tricassi, is numbered among the more illustrious cities of Gaul; whose various holy Bishops, Priests, Abbots, and Virgins are often mentioned in this work: and on the Kale... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
macarius-the-confessor | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/macarius-the-confessor.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Macarius the Confessor | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON SAINT MACARIUS THE CONFESSOR,
Hegumen of the monastery of Pelecetes among the Greeks.
ABOUT 830.
[Commentary]
Macarius the Confessor, Abbot of the monastery of Pelecetes, among the Greeks (Saint)
BY D. P.
[1] The excellent discipline of this monastery became known to posterity only from that time at which Con... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
meliton | https://actasanctorum.org/april/day-01/meliton.html | acta-sanctorum | april/day-01 | Meliton | [
"en"
] | Acta Sanctorum, April 1 | null |
ON ST. MELITON, BISHOP,
FIRST OR SECOND CENTURY.
[Commentary]
Meliton, Bishop, whether in Sardinia or at Sardis in Asia (Saint)
BY G. H.
Ferrarius, in his General Catalogue of Saints who are not in the Roman Martyrology, produces on the first day of April two Holy Bishops named Meliton: one of Sardis in Asia; the... | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | CC BY-NC 4.0 | 2026-09-08T00:00:00 |
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Acta Sanctorum — English translation
3,635 saint entries of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum in English (~34.5M words), one JSON record per entry. English only; the Latin source is not stored per entry. September 2026 was partial when exported.
Canonical home: https://actasanctorum.org (each record carries its canonical URL). This dataset is a machine-generated export of that site's build, regenerated from the source of truth and never hand-edited; the site remains the one published address of the text.
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0 on the English translation, apparatus and encoding; source text public domain and unclaimed. Machine-learning training, fine-tuning, evaluation and retrieval — including commercial model development — are explicitly permitted under those terms: keep the attribution and say if you changed the text. Full terms: https://actasanctorum.org/rights.html
Credits
Source: Acta Sanctorum (Bollandists), public domain. Known caveat: January vol. 2 has 16 day directories holding a second translation of the same saints.
How the English was made
English text was drafted with LLM assistance and checked against the source; the verification procedure and what has and has not been checked are described on the site's rights / about pages. Treat it as a careful working translation, not a critical edition.
Loading
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("wrootpress/acta-sanctorum", data_files="data/acta-sanctorum-2026-09-08.jsonl.gz")
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