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).

• ContentsDedication and Epigraph    ixPreface    xiBy Maureen M. O’BrienContributors    xiiiIntroduction    xviiBy Hugh Feiss, OSBAcknowledgments    xxxiiiI. Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries1. Saint-Michel de Bois-Aubry, Jacques Bienassis, and Religious Toleration    3Introduction by Pamela Park and Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected and translated by Pamela Park2. Fray Pedro Ponce de León, OSB (ca. 1508–1574), and Education of the Deaf    27Introduction by María Pilar Alonso AbadText selected and translated by María Pilar Alonso Abad3. Augustine Baker, OSB, Recusant Benedictine: Sancta Sophia/ Holy Wisdom    39Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB4. Dame Gertrude More, OSB (1606–1633): Selected Prose and Poetry    55Introduction by Jacob RiyeffTexts selected by Jacob Riyeff  5. Faremoutiers and the Benedictine Revival in Seventeenth-Century France    79Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB6. The Abbey of Saint Walburg: Devotion to Saint Walburga during the Thirty Years War    101Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBTexts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB7. The Congregation of Saint Maur in the Seventeenth Century: Claude Martin, OSB, The Practice of the Rule of Saint Benedict    123Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB8. 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    147Introduction by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSBText selected and translated by Colleen Maura McGrane, OSBII. Eighteenth Century9. Martin Sarmiento, OSB (1695–1772), Benedictine Scholar during the Enlightenment    167Introduction by Julia McCoyText translated by Julia McCoy10. Benedict Michael Pembridge, OSB (1725–1806), and the English Benedictine Congregation, 1688–1795    185Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB11. Maurus Lindemayr, OSB, The Marriage Contract (1770)    209Introduction by Alkuin SchachenmayrText selected and translated by Alkuin Schachenmayr  III. Nineteenth Century12. The Abbey of La Trinità, Cava dei Tirreni: Archive of a Millennium    233Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBTexts selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB13. Abbot Prosper Guéranger, OSB (1805–1875), Solesmes, and The Liturgical Year    265Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBTexts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB14. Abbot Maurus Wolter, OSB (1825–1890), and the First Fifty Years of Beuron    283Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB15. Father James Ambrose Cotham, OSB (1810–1883), Monk and Missionary    305Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBTexts selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB16. Abbot Rosendo Salvado, OSB (1814–1900), Founder of New Norcia Abbey in Western Australia and Missionary to the Aboriginal People    329Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected by Hugh Feiss, OSB17. Abbot Boniface Wimmer, OSB, Benedictine Founder in North America    353Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSBText selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB18. Saint Walburg Abbey, Eichstätt, Bavaria, and the Founding of the American Benedictine Women’s Communities (1806–1881)    359Introduction by Ephrem Hollermann, OSBTexts selected by Ephrem Hollermann, OSB  19. Father Ignatius Lyne (1837–1908): Monasteries in the Church of England    381Introduction by Greg PetersText selected by Greg Peters20. John Henry Newman (1801–1890) and the Benedictines    401Introduction by Owen CummingsTexts selected by Owen CummingsIV. Twentieth Century21. Saint Ottilien and Tutzing and Their African Missions, 1883–1906: The Travel Diary (1905) of Abbot Norbert Weber, OSB    419Introduction by Hugh Feiss, OSBText selected and translated by Hugh Feiss, OSB22. Blessed Columba Marmion, OSB (1858–1923): Spiritual Guide    445Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSBTexts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSB23. Father Virgil Michel, OSB (1890–1938): Liturgy and Social Justice    457Introduction by Joel Rippinger, OSBTexts selected by Joel Rippinger, OSBIndex of Subjects    467Index of Persons    481Index of Locations    491

"This welcome volume, A Benedictine Reader: 1530-1930, complements an earlier anthology, A Benedictine Reader, 530-1530. Together they provide students and scholars alike with an invaluable collection of texts illuminating the vast span of Benedictine monasticism."Brother Bruno Heisey, OSB, Archivist at Saint Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania