Joseph-Marie Canivez

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Joseph-Marie Canivez OCSO (born November 20, 1878 in Binche , † November 24, 1952 in Scourmont Abbey , Chimay ) was a Belgian Trappist monk and historian.

Life

His father was an optician; the family with five children was Catholic and deeply religious. From the age of twelve to eighteen, Canivez (named Ovide) attended a "small seminar" with a view to a future as a clergyman. After graduating from high school, he entered the Jesuit novitiate in Arlon. A year and a half later he left this order and decided to live as a Trappist. Six months later, in September of 1899 and at the age of 20, he asked to be admitted to the Scourmont novitiate.

He was ordained a priest on October 8, 1905. His later religious life was to be shaped by tasks as professor, ceremonial, novice master of the choir monks and succentor (second cantor ). From 1924 until the end of his life he was the librarian of his monastery.

He developed a lively scientific activity. From 1927 Canivez worked for the Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques . In this context he wrote 351 articles. The entries on Bernhard von Clairvaux and the Cîteaux monastery in particular have become standard literature.

The life's work, which his name still stands for today, was the eight-volume Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis Cisterciensis (Louvain 1933–1941). It contains all the resolutions of the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order up to the French Revolution and has a register.

His pupil Brouette noted in his French obituary:

"Without denying the 20th century, he was much closer to the great epoch of monastic studies, the epoch of Henriquez , Jongelinus , Manrique , the Benedictine scholars Martène and Durand and other well-known personalities of the 17th and 18th centuries."

Publications

  • Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis Cisterciensis from anno 1116 to annum 1786 , ed. by Josephus-Maria Canivez, Leuven, (= Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 9-14).
    • 1. From anno 1116 ad annum 1220 (1933)
    • 2. 1221-1261 (1934)
    • 3. 1262-1400 (1935)
    • 4. 1401-1456 (1936)
    • 5. 1457-1490 (1937)
    • 6. 1491-1546 (1938)
    • 7. 1546–1786 (1939)
    • 8. Indices (1941)

literature

  • Émile Brouette: Dom Joseph-Marie Canivez, Historien de L'Ordre de Cîteaux , in: Cîteaux - Commentarii cistercienses 23, 1972, pp. 122–128 (with detailed bibliography; German translation ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques Vol. 13, Col. 610-644.
  2. ^ Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques Vol. 12, Col. 852-997.
  3. ↑ Émile Brouette: Dom Joseph-Marie Canivez, Historien de L'Ordre de Cîteaux , p. 126.
personal data
SURNAME Canivez, Joseph-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Trappist monk and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Binche
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1952
Place of death Scourmont Abbey, Chimay