{"id":24257,"date":"2009-01-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-idelfonso-schuster-mon\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:00:00","slug":"blessed-idelfonso-schuster-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-idelfonso-schuster-mon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Idelfonso Schuster, monk, bishop, scholar: 129th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Schuster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"Schuster.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Schuster-thumb-250x358.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/span>Behold a great priest,&nbsp;who in his days pleased Godm and was found just.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>O God, Who did give Thy people blessed Idelfonso as a minister of eternal salvation, we beseech Thee; grant that we may deserve to have him as an intercessor in heaven, whom we had as a teacher of life on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A brief sketch:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Born 18 January 1880 at Rome, Italy: known in history as Alfredo Ludovico Luigi Schuster;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Educated at Saint-Paul-Outside-the-Walls and then entered the novitiate there in 1896 taking the name <i>Ildefonso<\/i> and professing solemn vows on 13 November 1890;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ordained a priest in 1904; he was novice master, prior and procurator for the Cassinese Congregation of Benedictine monks before being elected Abbot-Nullius of his abbey on 6 April 1918;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He was devoted scholarship and teaching and appointed president of the Pontifical Oriental Institute from 1919 to 1922. His <i>Liber sacramentorum, Historical and Liturgical Notes<\/i> on the Roman Missal is well known and used for liturgical history and theology studies;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pope Pius XI nominated Abbot Idelfonso Schuster the Archbishop of Milan on 26 July 1926 and was made a cardinal in 1929;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Died 30 August 1954 at Venegono, Italy of natural causes;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Beatified 12 May 1996 by Pope John Paul II and with the liturgical memorial&nbsp;on 30 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold a great priest,&nbsp;who in his days pleased Godm and was found just. &nbsp; O God, Who did give Thy people blessed Idelfonso as a minister of eternal salvation, we beseech Thee; grant that we may deserve to have him as an intercessor in heaven, whom we had as a teacher of life on earth. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/blessed-idelfonso-schuster-mon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Idelfonso Schuster, monk, bishop, scholar: 129th birthday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727,1925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}