continuing as a priest in good standing to pursue his researches with the Bollandists for the greater part of his long life and maintaining his international reputation as a respected and able scholar. He was a member of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and named Knight of the Order of Leopold. Delehaye wrote a number of articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia. Books Delehaye's major publications, works of method and synthesis that are of general use to historians, are: Les Légendes hagiographiques, Brüssels 1905, 1906 (translated by Virginia Mary Crawford, 1907, reprinted 1998), 1927. A 1955 French edition was translated by Donald Attwater as The Legends of the Saints (Fordham University Press, 1962). Les Origines du culte des martyrs, 1912 Les Passions des martyrs et les genres littéraires, 1921 Sanctus. Essai sur le culte des saints dans l'antiquité, 1927 Other important works, with more restricted focus, are: Les versions grecques des Actes des martyrs persans sous Sapor II, 1905 Les Légendes grecques des saints militaires, 1909 A travers trois siècles: L'Oeuvre des Bollandistes 1615 à 1915, 1920 (translated in 1922) Les saints Stylites, 1923 Martyrologium Romanum ... (Propylaeum ad Acta SS. Decembris), 194 A commentary on the Roman martyrology, of which Delehaye was the chief editor. Cinq leçons sur la méthode hagiographique, 1934. Posthumous collections of fugitive pieces were published in 1966 as Mélanges d'hagiographie grecque et latine and in 1991 as L'ancienne hagiographie byzantine: les sources, les premiers modèles, la formation des genres, the previously unpublished texts of lectures delivered in 1935. Notes References Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography (1907) B. Joassart, Hippolyte Delehaye. Hagiographie critique et modernisme, (Subsidia Hagiographica, 81), 2 vols. Brussels, 2000 External links Delehaye, Hippolyte. Legends of the Saints, (V.M. Crawford, trans.), 1907 1859 births 1941 deaths Clergy from Antwerp 20th-century Belgian Jesuits Christian hagiographers 19th-century Belgian Jesuits Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy