Fernand Cabrol

Fernand Cabrol
Born	11 December 1855 Marseille, France
Died	4 June 1937 Farnborough, Hampshire
Nationality	French
Occupation	Benedictine monk
Known for	Theology, Scholarship

Fernand Cabrol (11 December 1855 – 4 June 1937) was a French theologian, Benedictine monk and noted writer on the history of Christian worship.

Cabrol was born in Marseille. He became prior of St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire in 1896, and abbot in 1903. He is best known for being a co-founder of the Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, together with Henri Leclercq.

Selected works of scholarship

Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie

Cabrol was the founding editor and the majority of the volumes were edited by himself and Henri Leclercq and they also contributed articles to the encyclopaedia (Vol. 14, pt 2 & 15 were edited by H. I. Marrou). By 1953 the work was complete in 15 volumes, each of two parts.

Selected other works

• Livre de la prière antique (1900)
• Monumenta ecclesiae liturgica (1900-1913) Vol. 1, 5 & 6 (no more published; editors: Cabrol, Leclercq & M. Ferotin). 4 vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot
• Relliquiae liturgicae vetustissimae: ex Ss. Patrum necnon Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum monumentis selectae et publici juris factae curantibus Ferdinando Cabrol et Henrico Leclercq. 2 vols. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1902, 1913 (edited with Henri Leclercq; Sectio 1-2: Ab aevo apostolico ad pacem Ecclesiae)

See also

• Farnborough, Hampshire
• St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough
• Order of Saint Benedict

External links

• Works by Fernand Cabrol at Open Library
• The True Cross by Fernand Cabrol
• The Mass of the Western Rites by Fernand Cabrol
• Abbot Fernand Cabrol
• Dom Fernand Cabrol's The Mass of the Western Rites