Down in the depths of New College Library's Stack III, one of the first rows of shelves that faces you when you enter contains the Acta Sanctorum. This huge Latin work in sixty-eight volumes examines the lives of saints, organised according to each saint's feast day in the calendar year. Fifty-three of the volumes were published between 1643 and 1794 by the Bollandist Fathers in Antwerp.
Even bibliodeviants need Christmas present...
