Fernand Cabrol was a French

French people

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 theologian and Benedictine monk.

Cabrol was born in Marseille

Marseille

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. He became prior

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 of St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire

Farnborough, Hampshire

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 in 1896, and abbot

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 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)

External links

• The True Cross by Fernand Cabrol
• The Mass of the Western Rites by Fernand Cabrol