A Benedictine Reader

Hugh Feiss, OSB, is a monk of the Monastery of the Ascension in Jerome, Idaho. He earned his licentiate in philosophy and a doctorate in theology at Sant’Anselmo. He served as managing editor and contributor for the series Victorine Texts in Translation (Brepols). He published Essential Monastic Wisdom, a thematic anthology of Benedictine and Cistercian texts (Harper-San-Francisco, 2000). For Cistercian Publications he has translated works of Peter of Celle and Achard of Saint Victor and collaborated on Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse, and The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2. He was co-editor and contributor of A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530 (Cistercian Publications, 2019).   Maureen M. O’Brien is a professor in the Department of History at Saint Cloud State University, where she teaches ancient and medieval European history. She edited Stephen of Muret’s Maxims (CS 177), Bernard of Clairvaux’s The Parables and The Sentences (CF 55), and A Benedictine Reader: 530–1530 (CS 275), and she collaborated with Hugh Feiss, OSB, and Ronald Pepin on The Lives of Monastic Reformers, 1 and 2 (CS 222 and 230).

Contents

Dedication and Epigraph    ix
Preface    xi
     By Maureen M. O’Brien
Contributors    xiii
Introduction    xvii
     By Hugh Feiss, OSB
Acknowledgments    xxxiii

I. Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries
   1. Saint-Michel de Bois-Aubry, Jacques Bienassis, and Religious Toleration    3
          Introduction by Pamela Park and Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected and translated by Pamela Park
   2. Fray Pedro Ponce de León, OSB (ca. 1508–1574), and Education of the Deaf    27
          Introduction by María Pilar Alonso Abad
          Text selected and translated by María Pilar Alonso Abad
   3. Augustine Baker, OSB, Recusant Benedictine: Sancta Sophia/ Holy Wisdom    39
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   4. Dame Gertrude More, OSB (1606–1633): Selected Prose and Poetry    55
          Introduction by Jacob Riyeff
          Texts selected by Jacob Riyeff  
   5. Faremoutiers and the Benedictine Revival in Seventeenth-Century France    79
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   6. The Abbey of Saint Walburg: Devotion to Saint Walburga during the Thirty Years War    101
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Texts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   7. The Congregation of Saint Maur in the Seventeenth Century: Claude Martin, OSB, The Practice of the Rule of Saint Benedict    123
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   8. Catherine Mechtilde de Bar, OSB (1614–1698), Founder of the Benedictine Nuns of the Institute of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar    147
          Introduction by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB
          Text selected and translated by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB

II. Eighteenth Century
   9. Martin Sarmiento, OSB (1695–1772), Benedictine Scholar during the Enlightenment    167
          Introduction by Julia McCoy
          Text translated by Julia McCoy
   10. Benedict Michael Pembridge, OSB (1725–1806), and the English Benedictine Congregation, 1688–1795    185
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   11. Maurus Lindemayr, OSB, The Marriage Contract (1770)    209
          Introduction by Alkuin Schachenmayr
          Text selected and translated by Alkuin Schachenmayr  

III. Nineteenth Century
   12. The Abbey of La Trinità, Cava dei Tirreni: Archive of a Millennium    233
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Texts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   13. Abbot Prosper Guéranger, OSB (1805–1875), Solesmes, and The Liturgical Year    265
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Texts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   14. Abbot Maurus Wolter, OSB (1825–1890), and the First Fifty Years of Beuron    283
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   15. Father James Ambrose Cotham, OSB (1810–1883), Monk and Missionary    305
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Texts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   16. Abbot Rosendo Salvado, OSB (1814–1900), Founder of New Norcia Abbey in Western Australia and Missionary to the Aboriginal People    329
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   17. Abbot Boniface Wimmer, OSB, Benedictine Founder in North America    353
          Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB
          Text selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB
   18. Saint Walburg Abbey, Eichstätt, Bavaria, and the Founding of the American Benedictine Women’s Communities (1806–1881)    359
          Introduction by Ephrem Hollermann, OSB
          Texts selected by Ephrem Hollermann, OSB  
   19. Father Ignatius Lyne (1837–1908): Monasteries in the Church of England    381
          Introduction by Greg Peters
          Text selected by Greg Peters
   20. John Henry Newman (1801–1890) and the Benedictines    401
          Introduction by Owen Cummings
          Texts selected by Owen Cummings

IV. Twentieth Century
   21. Saint Ottilien and Tutzing and Their African Missions, 1883–1906: The Travel Diary (1905) of Abbot Norbert Weber, OSB    419
          Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSB
          Text selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB
   22. Blessed Columba Marmion, OSB (1858–1923): Spiritual Guide    445
          Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB
          Texts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB
   23. Father Virgil Michel, OSB (1890–1938): Liturgy and Social Justice    457
          Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSB
          Texts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB

Index of Subjects    467
Index of Persons    481
Index of Locations    491