Today is the liturgical memorial of Blessed Ildefonso Schuster of Milan who died in 1954. Schuster is the celebrated monk, abbot, bishop and liturgical scholar. He led the Diocese of Milan for 25 years.
Among his works on the sacred Liturgy, Schuster became known for his Liber Sacramentorum, later translated into English as The Sacramentary. The value of the multivolume work is that it takes you through the liturgical theology of each Sunday of the year.
When his tomb was opened in 1985, his mortal remains were found to be intact; he was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1996. You may be interested to know that the miracle for Cardinal Ildefonso’s sainthood cause was the curing of glaucoma.
Let’s pray for Blessed Ildefonso Schuster’s intercession.