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| AN IMPORTANT PROTAGONIST IN SPIRITUAL RENEWAL OF 19TH CENTURY FRANCE |
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| The remains of Fr. Hermann Cohen return to Monastery of Broussey |
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Communicationes
Broussey - France (12-07-2010).- On 15th April, during the celebration of the Plenary Council of the Avignon-Aquitania Province, the remains of Fr. Hermann Cohen (1820-1871) were moved to the Monastery of Broussey, near Burdeos.
The mortal remains of Fr. Hermann were placed in the Conventual Chapel, where the altar includes a fragment donated by the Queen of Spain, Maria Cristina. The community shared a brief liturgical ceremony with a reading from Ezequiel (37, 1-14) and with some reflections on the Communion of Saints by the Provincial, Fr. Henri of the Child Jesus. During the ceremony the community sang ‘Ecce Panis Angelorum’ with a melody composed by Fr. Hermann himself, while Fr. Provincial unveiled a commemorative plaque signed by each of the Religious present.
Fr. Hermann (Augustine Mary of the Blessed Sacrament) played an important role in the spread of our Order in France and England, making various foundations before his death as he assisted French soldier-prisoners in Berlin in 1871. He was an important figure in the French spiritual renewal of the 19th century. Originally a Jew, he was a well known personality in the artistic world of his time, before his conversion to the Catholic faith, on his discovery of devotion to Eucharistic adoration. In 1849 he entered Carmel, (recently restored in France by Fr. Dominic of St. Joseph – 1839), where Hermann applied his remarkable services and talents as an organist and composer. He also became a renowned promoter of night-adoration of the Blessed Eucharist.
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