Jean Gribomont, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Monk of the Abbey of Clervaux, Luxembourg
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About Jean Gribomont
- Jean Gribomont (1920–1986) was a Benedictine scholar who professed as monk of the Abbey of Clervaux (Luxemburg) in 1939.
- He is noted for a vast range of publications in French (and some Latin) covering the origins and history of ascetic currents and monasticism particularly, although not only, in the Syriac-speaking and eastern Asia Minor context of the fourth and fifth centuries of the common era.
- These include a major work and article on St.
- Basil, three encyclopaedia entries on Eustathius of Sebaste, studies of Messalianism, work in the Syriac domain and also of later Latin monasticism.
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