Paul Grammont
Paul Grammont (born February 20, 1911 in Troyes , † July 30, 1989 in Le Bec-Hellouin ) was a French Benedictine , Olivetan and abbot .
life and work
The olivetan
André Grammont met a chaplain in Troyes Cathedral who belonged to the Olivetan convent of the Mesnil Saint-Loup monastery, founded by Emmanuel André and dispersed in 1903 by the Third Republic . In 1927 he entered the abbey reopened by Bernard Maréchaux, took the religious name Paul and made profession in 1929. In 1932 he came into contact with the Sainte-Françoise-Romaine Oblate Convent , which Élisabeth de Wavrechin (1885–1975) had founded in 1924 with Bernard Maréchaux in Cormeilles-en-Parisis and was founded by the founder (as well as by Lambert Beauduin and Louis Bouyer ) sustainably shaped.
Rome, War and Cormeilles-en-Parisis
After studying theology in Rome at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo , where the most important impulses came from Anselm Stolz (1900–1942), he was ordained a priest in 1936 and elected prior in 1939 . In 1940 he took part voluntarily in the battle of Narvik , then he devoted himself to the study house of the monastery in Cormeilles-en-Parisis.
Abbot of Le Bec
In 1948 the state offered the convention the resettlement of Le Bec Abbey in Normandy . The monks left Mesnil-Saint-Loup for Bec-Hellouin and there elected Grammont as abbot. The sisters under Elisabeth de Wavrechin also left Cormeilles-en-Parisis in 1949 and settled two kilometers from the men's convent. Grammont ran his monastery for 38 years (until 1986). In 1969 a new monastery church was consecrated.
Ecumenism and the founding of monasteries
Through the figure of Anselm of Canterbury, Grammont established intensive ecumenical contacts with the Anglican Church . In 1976, remembering the Jewish roots of Christianity, he sent confreres under Jean-Baptiste Gourion to found the Abbaye Sainte Marie de la Résurrection (Mary Resurrection) in Abu Gosh in Israel. Also in 1976 he had the Mesnil-Saint-Loup monastery repopulated, which is still home to a small community today. In 1983 he founded an underground monastery in Northern Ireland that had to be closed in 1987, an attempt that was repeated in 1998 and led to the new Holy Cross monastery in Rostrevor ( County Down ) in 2004 .
Works
- Le feu qui nous habite . Le Livre ouvert, Mesnil-Saint-Loup 1988, 1999.
- Présence à Dieu, présence aux hommes. Un moine à l'école de saint Benoît . Cerf, Paris 1991, 2010.
literature
- Danièle Hervieu-Léger: Le temps des moines. Clôture et hospitalité . PUF, Paris 2017.
- Alain Maillard de La Morandais (* 1935): Dom Grammont. Abbé du Bec-Hellouin . Fayard, Paris 1986.
Web links
- Information on Paul Grammont in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Paul Grammont in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Website of the Abbey of Le Bec, French
- Website of the Mesnil-Saint-Loup Monastery with history, French
- Website of the Maylis monastery with history, French
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grammont, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grammont, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Benedictine and abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troyes |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1989 |
| Place of death | Bec-Hellouin |