Edmond Obrecht

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Abbot Edmond Obrecht (1900 or later)

Edmond Obrecht (born November 13, 1852 in Stotzheim (Bas-Rhin) , France , † January 4, 1935 in the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani , United States ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman, Trappist and abbot .

life and work

Edmond (also: Edmund ) Obrecht grew up in Alsace , attended a seminary school in Alençon , was a soldier in the Franco-German War and studied at the Sorbonne . In 1875 he entered the Trappist monastery of La Trappe and was ordained a priest in 1878. Then he was secretary to the General Procurators François-Régis Martrin-Donos (1808–1880) and Stanislaus White (1838–1911) in Rome until 1892 . From 1893 to 1897 he raised funds in Europe and the United States to help build Tre Fontane Abbey . From 1898 until his death he was abbot of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky .

The catalog of the medieval manuscripts (and documents from the time of the French Revolution ) collected by him and kept at Western Michigan University was published by the Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies in 2016 .

Works

  • (with Marie-Eutrope Proust, 1809–1874): Gethsemani Abbey. A narrative . 1899. Lexington, Ky., University of Kentucky, 2002.

literature

  • Susan MB Steuer and E. Rozanne Elder (Eds.): Catalog of the manuscripts in the Dom Edmond Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey . Pre-1500 descriptions compiled by Anna Kirkwood-Graham and Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO. Post-1500 descriptions compiled by Arthur J. Russell and Micah Erwin. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 2016 (Series: Monasticism 1, 229 pages). ISBN 978-1-58044-222-0
  • Father Amedeus: The Right Reverend Dom M. Edmond Obrecht OCSO fourth abbot of Our Lady of Gethsemani (1852-1935) . Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, 1937. Louisville, Lost Cause Press, 1968.
  • Dixie Hibbs and Carl Howell: Central Kentucky. Bullitt, Marion, Nelson, Spencer, and Washington Counties . Arcadia Publishing, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Obrecht, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obrecht, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic clergyman and Trappist abbot
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Stotzheim (Bas-Rhin)
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1935
Place of death Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani