Quotes:Butler, Alban

Zirkoff, Boris

Butler, Alban. English Roman Catholic priest and hagiologist, b. in Northampton, Oct. 24, 1710; d. at St. Omer, May 15, 1773. Educ. at the English college, Douai, where, after ordination, 1735, he held chairs of philosophy and divinity. After some years in England, he became president of the English seminary at St. Omer. His great work is The Lives of the Saints, the result of thirty years’ study, the best edition of which is the one of Dublin, 1779-80, which incl. valuable notes.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 637