Dysmas de Lassus

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Dysmas de Lassus (born March 30, 1956 as Michael de Lassus) is a French monk and since 2014 Minister General of the Carthusian monks .

Life

He was born the son of Arnaud de Lassus, the founder of Action Familiale et Scolaire . He has six siblings, one of whom is a Carmelite with the religious name Aude de la Vierge Marie.

At the age of 20 he entered the Carthusian Order and took the name Dysmas after the repentant thief who was crucified with Jesus. In 1990 he became novice master of the Grande Chartreuse and in 2012 he was elected prior of La Chartreuse de Portes .

On November 3, 2014, the monks of the Grande Chartreuse elected him prior and he was confirmed by the general chapter . This made him the 74th successor of St. Bruno of Cologne . He succeeded François-Marie Velut , who resigned for health reasons.

Robert Sarah and Nicolas Diat interviewed him for their book La Force du Silence, contre la dictature du bruit (“The power of silence, against the dictatorship of noise”).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dom Dysmas de Lassus, prieur de la Grande Chartreuse, un moine ANCRE . In: La Croix . June 26, 2015, ISSN  0242-6056 ( la-croix.com [accessed October 6, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Dom Dysmas de Lassus, nouveau prieur général des Chartreux . In: La Croix . November 10, 2014, ISSN  0242-6056 ( la-croix.com [accessed October 6, 2017]).
  3. ^ Un nouveau Prieur pour le monastère de la Grande Chartreuse, Diocèse de Grenoble - Vienne. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 6, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.diocese-grenoble-vienne.fr  
  4. ^ Robert Sarah / Nicolas Diat: La force du silence , Fayard, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-213-70108-0 ; German edition: Kraft der Stille , fe-Medienverlag, Kisslegg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86357-180-1
  5. ↑ La Force du silence. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Lassus, Dysmas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michael, Dysmas de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French monk, Minister General of the Carthusians
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1956