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Prosper Guéranger

Benedictine abbey

Born on: April 4, 1805
Died on: January 30, 1875
Aged: 69 years 301 days (837 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: French
Birth Sign: Aries

 

Prosper Guéranger

Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger was a French priest and Benedictine monk, who served for nearly 40 years as the abbot of the monastery of Solesmes.

Through the new Abbey of Solesmes, he became the founder of the French Benedictine Congregation, which re-established Benedictine monastic life in France after it had been wiped out by the French Revolution.

Guéranger was the author of The Liturgical Year, a popular commentary which covers every day of the Catholic Church's liturgical cycles in 15 volumes.

He was well regarded by Pope Pius IX, and was a proponent of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and of papal infallibility.

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