Jean-Baptiste Ollitrault de Kéryvallan

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Jean-Baptiste Ollitrault de Kéryvallan (born April 13, 1862 in Quintin (Côtes-d'Armor) , † February 25, 1929 in Rome ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, Trappist , abbot and abbot general .

life and work

Ollitrault (incorrectly also: Ollitraut ) grew up as a half-orphan in Le Quillio in Brittany . He attended the minor seminary in Plouguernével and the seminary of the Marist Fathers in Saint-Brieuc . From January 1884 he lived as a Marist novice (outside the anti-church Third Republic ) in Paignton in England , but left the missionary order again and entered the Melleray monastery of the Trappists in June 1885 . There he was ordained a priest in 1888 and (after solemn profession in 1890) was sub prior and novice master . Sent to Devon in 1901 because of his experience in England , he founded the exiled Wood Barton monastery north of Kingsbridge , where he was superior until it was dissolved (with a move to the Trappist monastery Divielle ). In 1919 he was elected Abbot of Melleray and in 1922 (as successor to Augustin Marre ) the third Abbot General of the Cistercians of the Stricter Observance (Trappists) and Abbot of the Cîteaux Monastery . He died in Rome and was buried in the Tre Fontane monastery.

Ollitrault had the Republican Louis-Adolphe Robin-Morhéry (1805–1864) as his (married) uncle.

Works

  • (Ed.) Psalterium Davidicum ad usum Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis per hebdomadam dispositum cum canticis, hymnis, suffragiis necnon officio defunctorum juxta ejusdem ordinis breviarium cumque supplemento ad antiphonalia , cura RR. DD. Joannis Baptistae Ollitrault de Kéryvallan abbatis generalis Ordinis Cisterciensium Strictioris Observantiae, Westmalle, Typographia Ordinis Cisterciensium Strictioris Observantiae, 1925.

literature

  • Henri Charrier (1879–1951), Le Révérendissime Père Dom Jean-Baptiste Ollitrault de Kéryvallan, Abbé de Citeaux, 3e Abbé Général des Cisterciens de la Stricte Observance, 1862-1929 , Westmalle, Imprimerie de l'Ordre, 1930.

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personal data
SURNAME Ollitrault de Kéryvallan, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic clergyman, Trappist, abbot and abbot general
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Quintin (Côtes-d'Armor)
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1929
Place of death Rome