Guy Oury himself died on November 2, 2000, at the age of 71. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusettes, demonstrates an appreciation by a monk who worked closely with Dom Gabriel Sortais during the lastyears of his life. Brian Kerns of the Abbey of the Genesee, near Piffard, New York. There is an admirable objectivity in the present biography, which was ably translated into English by Br. He was given all the papers in thearchives at Bellefontaine that were gathered together following Dom Gabriel's death. Guy Oury, OSB, was asked by Dom Emmanuel Coutant, the Abbot of Bellefontaine, to write the biography of his predecessor, Dom Gabriel Sortais. This book offers insight into the lives of the Trappists during the troubled times of World War II and alsothroughout the changes of Vatican Two.Fr. Oury works from the primary sources, which include witnesses and documents from the Abbey of Bellefontaine in France, where he was a monk and later abbot before being elected Abbot General of the order, as well as the archives of the Generalate in Rome. For details of the biography of Marie Guyard, see our book Marie de lIncarnation, femme daffaires, mystique, mre de la. Dom Guy Oury, a Benedictinemonk of Solesmes, has written the story with remarkableclarity. His tragic death during thecourse of Vatican Two impeded the implementation of hisvision for the whole Order. Dom Gabriel put his stamp on the order in a very personal way, a form that remains with us today despite his best efforts to bring the Order up-to-date. Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times is an engaging biography of one of the most colorful Abbot Generals among the Trappists.
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