The Bollandists: Historians of the Impossible

Speaker: Professor Carlos Eire

Founded in 1607, The Bollandists are a discreet group of scholars who have applied their intellectual rigor to the study of the saints in a systematic, in-depth, scrupulous, disinterested research and are considered the pioneers of documenting the impossible in the lives of saints.

About the Presenter:
Professor Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is the author of A Very Brief History of Eternity, Reformations: The Early Modern World, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila: A Biography, and They Flew: A History of the Impossible.