Placide Vernet

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Placide Vernet (born June 13, 1922 in Fleury-en-Bière , † August 19, 2018 in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman , Trappist and religious historian.

life and work

Vernet, who was born not far from Barbizon , entered the Trappist Cîteaux monastery in 1939 at the age of 17 , made temporary and permanent profession in 1941 and was ordained a priest in 1947. Its order name Placide refers to Placidus of Subiaco . After 79 years as a monk and after 71 years as a priest, he died at the age of 96 in his home monastery. In recognition of his research on the history of the Cistercian order and his numerous publications on questions of liturgical reform (including in the Trappist magazine Liturgy ), a commemorative publication was dedicated to him in 2012.

Vernet was used for forced labor from 1943 to 1944 as part of the Service du travail obligatoire in Breitenlee (now Vienna ), from where he made contact with the Cistercians of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

Works

  • (with Danièle Choisselet) Les ecclesiastica officia cisterciens du XIIème siècle. Texts latin selon les manuscrits édités de Trente 1711, Ljubljana 31 et Dijon 114. Version française, annexe liturgique, notes, index et table . La documentation cistercienne, Reiningue 1989.
    • (German) Ecclesiastica officia. Customs book of the Cistercians from the 12th century; Latin text based on the manuscripts Dijon 114, Trient 1711, Ljubljana 31, Paris 4346 and Wolfenbüttel Codex Guelferbytanus 1068 ; German translation, liturgical appendix, footnotes and index based on the Latin-French edition by Danièle Choisselet (La Coudre) and Placide Vernet (Cîteaux) / transl., edited. and ed. by Hermann M. Herzog and Johannes Müller. Bernardus-Verlag, Langwaden 2003.
  • (Ed.) Dorothée Jalloutz (1718? –1788): Cisterciens au Val-des-Choux et à Sept-Fons. Regulations généraux . L'Harmattan, Paris 2005.

literature

  • Mélanges cisterciens 2012 offers par l'ARCCIS au Père Placide Vernet, moine de Cîteaux, pour son 90e anniversaire . Abbaye de Bellefontaine, Bégrolles-en-Mauges 2012 (with list of publications).
  • Placide Vernet: “As a forced laborer in Austria. Memories of the encounter with Heiligenkreuz ”. In: Sancta Crux 61 (2000), pp. 207-215.
  • German Herzog: Obituary for Placide Vernet OCSO. Monk priests, Cistercians, scientists , in: Cistercienser Chronik 125 (2018), pp. 609–613.

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personal data
SURNAME Vernet, Placide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic priest, Trappist and religious historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Fleury-en-Bière
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2018
Place of death Saint-Nicolas-lès-Citeaux