Salvatore Marsili

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Salvatore Marsili OSB (born August 10, 1910 in Affile ; † November 27, 1983 in Finalpia) was an Italian Benedictine abbot and liturgical scholar .

Life

He was a monk of the Abbey of Santa Maria di Finalpia (first vow 1927). He began his studies in Subiaco and then continued in Sant'Anselmo in Rome, where he was ordained a priest in 1933. In the years 1934–1935 he was a student at the Benedictine Academy in Maria Laach . He played a fundamental role in his research and met with Odo Casel , the German theologian-liturgist, who helped him develop his idea of ​​the presence of the mystery of Christian salvation in the conduct of the liturgy.

From 1948 he was editor of the Rivista liturgica . From 1960 he taught liturgy in Sant'Anselmo, where he was also the first coordinator of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. From 1972 to 1979 he was abbot of Santa Maria di Finalpia Abbey .

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Adrien Nocent : Un théologies de la liturgie. Dom Salvatore Marsili OSB (1910-1983) . in: Questions liturgiques . 65, 2 (1984), pp. 81-84, ISSN  1783-1709 .