Un collaborateur de la Revue bénédictine : Dom Ildephonse Schuster

Abstract

Monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, in Rome, of which he was to become the Abbot from 1918 to 1929, then Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan from 1929 to 1954, Ildephonse Schuster (1880-1954), early manifested a taste for history and Christian archeology. He received advice and encouragement in particular from Fathers Germain Morin (1861-1946) and Ursmer Berlière (1861-1932), both monks of the abbey of Maredsous (Belgium) and renowned scholars, the first in patrology and the history of early Christianity, the second in the history of the Benedictine Order. Schuster regularly met them in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century and upheld a correspondence with them for some forty years. Both monks always paid great attention to his research and to his person. In this context of intellectual and spiritual emulation, as well as at the instigation of his former fellow student, Beda Lebbe, another monk of Maredsous, the young Ildephonse Schuster published three articles in the Revue Bénédictine, successively in 1904, 1907 and 1909-1910. This article reports on those friendships and collaboration.