When I made my first retreat at Regina Laudis, contemplating monastic life, I was on my way to Germany Luxembourg and asked if I would stop to see him, knowing that I was flying direct to Luxembourg
DOM JEAN LeCLERCQ, O.S.B. was a French Benedictine monk, and author of a classic study on Lectio Divina and the history of inter-monastic dialogue.
He was born in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, in 1911. As a young man, he entered the Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maur in Clervaux , Luxembourg Rome , and at several universities in France
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In 1946, he began a 30 year assignment to compile the writings of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, during which time he traveled through much of
Dom LeClercq is perhaps best known for his seminal work “The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture”.
He is also the author of many other books, including, "A Humanist Hermit; Blessed Paul Giustiniani" (1951), "Alone With God" (1955), "The Love of Learning and the Desire for God; A Study of Monastic Culture" (1957), "The Spirituality of the Middle Ages" (1969), and nine volumes on St. Bernard, the last of which was published in 1977.
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