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Article: A special grace from overlooked beatification.(Abbot Columba Marmion)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 3, 2000
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When I learned in the summer of 2000 that Benedictine Abbot Columba Marmion (1858-1923) was to be beatified I rejoiced. Finally I related personally and strongly to one of the 996 persons that have been beatified by Pope John Paul II.
When I was 22 and a Jesuit novice I discovered the three books of Marmion. They informed and inspired me. I copied paragraphs from them in a notebook. I prayed over many of the sentences. I remember vividly today the sense of discovery and elation I experienced as I tried to assimilate Marmion's synthesis of the gospels, the 13 epistles of St. Paul and the church fathers.
The three books Christ: The Life of a Soul, Christ ...