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Ildephonso Cardinal Schuster’s Commentary on the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict

Professor’s Bookshelf #16

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Peter Kwasniewski
Aug 22, 2026
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Beatified by John Paul II on May 12, 1996, Alfredo Ildephonso Cardinal Schuster (1880–1954) was one of the giants of twentieth-century Benedictine monasticism and liturgical studies. The author of the impressive five-volume commentary on the Roman Rite—The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum), again in print from Arouca Press—Cardinal Schuster was abbot f…

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