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Title: The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints
January, February, March

Author: Alban Butler

Release Date: January 26, 2007 [EBook #20450]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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{Transcriber's notes:

1) Page numbers in the main text have been retained in {braces}. Page
breaks within long footnotes are not marked.

2) The original of this work is printed very badly. In most cases, the
original text is obvious and has been restored without any special
notations in the transcription. In those cases where it was not possible
to determine the original text with much certainty (usually numbers and
rare proper nouns which cannot be deduced from context) a pair of braces
{} indicates where the illegible text was. Sometimes the braces contains
text {like this}, indicating a possible but not certain reconstruction.

3) The original had both numbered footnotes, used for references, and
footnotes with symbols, used for extended comments. This transcription
does not preserve that distinction; all the notes have been numbered or
renumbered as needed.

4) In a few cases, footnotes appear on the bottom of the page that do
not appear in the text (presumably because of the poor printing noted
above). In this case, the footnote is marked in the text at a likely
location, and the footnote begins {Footnote not in text} to indicate
that this was done.}

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ARCHBISHOP'S HOUSE,
452 MADISON AVENUE.
Imprimatur
{Michael Augustinus
Archeispo Neo}
June 28th, 1895.

ADVERTISEMENT.

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have been issued from the American press, and circulated extensively
throughout the United States, yet the publishers of the present one are
led to believe that there are vast numbers of persons still unsupplied,
and desirous of possessing a work so replete with instruction and
edification for Christian families. This edition is reprinted from the
best London edition, with