Dominique Nogues

Dominique Nogues (born December 14, 1879 in Radenac , † November 28, 1957 in Bréhan ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Trappist , abbot and abbot general .

life and work

Nogues grew up in Brittany . He attended the Small Seminary in Ploërmel from 1892 to 1898 , then the seminary in Vannes until 1900 . In 1901 he entered the Timadeuc monastery of the Trappists and was ordained a priest in 1907. From 1912 to 1919 he was superior of the Petit Clairvaux monastery in Canada, which was repopulated by Timadeuc (as a refuge) . From 1919 to 1922 he was prior , then until 1946 Abbot of Timadeuc. During the Second World War , the monastery was active in the Resistance under his leadership (the monk Jean-Mathurin Guénaël Thomas died in Neuengamme concentration camp ). From 1943 Nogues temporarily replaced the late Abbot General Herman-Joseph Smets . In 1946 he was regularly elected Abbot General of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) and Abbot of the Cîteaux Monastery . He resigned in 1951 and died six years later in the Timadeuc Monastery. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Mariologie de Saint Bernard , Paris, Casterman, 1935, 1947 (236 pages; "Sources et évolution de la dévotion de Saint Bernard pour Marie. La Vierge Marie. La Mère de Dieu. La Mère des hommes. Culte que nous devons à Marie. Influence de la spiritualité mariale de Saint Bernard ").

personal data
SURNAME	Nogues, Dominique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nogués, Dominique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French Roman Catholic clergyman, Trappist, abbot and abbot general
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Radenac
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1957
Place of death	Bréhan