Jean de Monléon

This article is about the priest. For the pediatrician, see Jean-Vital de Monléon.

Jean de Monléon OSB (9 May 1890 – 19 April 1981) was a French Roman Catholic priest and exegete.

Biography

Jean de Monléon was born in Marseille. He graduated in literature and was a cavalry officer during the war. In 1919, he entered the convent of Auteuil, which in 1925 became the Abbey of St. Mary in Paris. After his theological studies, he was ordained a priest on 19 September 1925. Monléon undertook extensive work to disseminate the Sacred Scriptures. His vast ecclesiastical culture enabled him to respond to the objections of scientists and modernists, realising the fragility — masked by an impressive scientific apparatus — of many commentators from the modern school. He founded the Éditions de la Source and wrote scholarly yet accessible works.

Jean de Monléon died in at the 16th arrondissement of Paris, on an Easter evening.

External links

• Jean de Monléon at Gallica