Memoirs: From Grace to Grace

Jean Leclercq was born in Avesnes, France in 1911. In 1928 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Clervaux in Luxembourg. He studied at Sant' Anselmo in Rome and then in Paris at the Institut Catholique, the Ecole des Chartres, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and the College de France. He was a member of the Ecole Francaise in Rome. Beginning in 1946, he was assigned to search through libraries in Europe in order to produce a critical edition of the works of St. Bernard; the ninth and final volume appeared in 1977. Father Jean was also occupied by various assignments for the renewal of monasticism and for its introduction into non-western cultures in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America and the South Pacific. He received honorary doctorates from the Catholic Universities in Milan and Louvain, as well as from Western Michigan University. He was a corresponding member of various academies such as the American Medieval Academy, the British Academy, and the Academies of Macon, Metz and Spoleto, among others. He died at Clervaux in 1993. Book jacket.Leclercq, Jean is the author of 'Memoirs: From Grace to Grace', published 2000 under ISBN 9781879007260 and ISBN 1879007266.