Alban Butler letter from Saint-Omer, France to unknown English correspondent, 1770.

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Alban Butler letter from Saint-Omer, France to unknown English correspondent, 1770.

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This letter, written from Saint-Omer on March 2, 1770, was composed three years before Butler's death. In it, he details his many responsibilities as President of the English College and Vicar-General to four local bishops. The letter is interesting in its snapshot of everyday life for the famous hagiographer. Butler recounts the deaths of three acquaintances, the legal problems of a local family, rivalries among various Catholic orders, and housing shortages at the college.

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Flugschriften des Fruhen 16 Jahrhunderts

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Flugschriften des Fruhen 16 Jahrhunderts

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English College (Douai, France)

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Butler, Alban, 1711-1773

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Alban Butler is the author of many works, including the multi-volume The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints or Lives of the Saints; The Life of Sir Tobie Matthews; Travels through France and Italy, and part of Austrian, French, and Dutch Netherlands, during the years 1745 and 1746; and the unfinished Meditations and Discourses on the sublime Truths and important Duties of Christianity.Born in 1710 or 1711 in Northamptonshire, England, Alban Butler attended the English Colle...