« Augustin se répète, il ne se copie pas. » Dom Germain Morin à l’école de Dom Odilo Rottmanner

Dom Germain Morin (1861-1946), benedictine monk of Maredsous, editor of the sermons of S. Caesarius and of S. Augustine, soon received from dom Odilo Rottmanner (1841-1907), benedictine monk of St Bonifaz (Munich), in order to test the authenticity of the sermons, this criterion among others: “Augustine repeats himself, he does not copy himself.” The opportunity is given to recall the memory of this clever Augustinian searcher and his influence on dom Morin at dawn of his career as a scholar, since 1892. Dom Rottmanner, who had been a student of I. Döllinger, kept a regular correspondence with dom Morin, a little part of which has been preserved. It sheds a new light on the attitude of dom Morin during the modernist crisis

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