Dom Prosper Guéranger
Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger OSB (Sablé-sur-Sarthe, April 4, 1805 - Solesmes, January 30, 1875) was a French Benedictine who is famous for his study of the Gregorian and the restoration of the Solesmes Abbey. >
He was initially secular priest in Le Mans. He had studied history and was touched by the romantic ideal to rehabilitate the Church in all its beauty. He was also under the influence of ultramontanism as Lamennais propagated. He bought an abandoned abbey in Solesmes at Angers in 1832, where he with five companions wanted to restore the monastic tradition of St. Benedict of Nursia in France. His ideal was that the liturgy in his abbey would become a model trip of unrivaled ritual beauty. As an abbot, he received permission from Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 to restore the liturgy of the Church in France. The abbey became the mother's monastery of a new Benedictine congregation: the French congregation, also called the Congregation of Solesmes. Until 1969, all Dutch Benedictine monasteries belonged to this congregation (now only the Abbey of St. Benedict's Mountain in Mamelis).
In 1865 he founded Sainte-Madeleine de Marseille, a community that would later move to Hautecombe and then to Ganagobie.
Guéranger successfully pursued neo-gallian liturgies. By 1870 all local liturgies had disappeared and Roman unity relief was restored everywhere. No liturgical movement could yet be mentioned, yet there was renewed interest in liturgy, which Guéranger regarded as a source of true religion. His work, although some call it scientifically amateuristic, meant an incentive for the liturgical history and liturgy study. During this period, liturgy science really came true. Guéranger was at the beginning of the revival and restoration of the Gregorian. Just in the early Benedictine Order (Solesmes) by Guéranger, the liturgical movement emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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