THE FIRST CISTERCIAN SPIRITUAL WRITERS

About the Book

About the Author

Père André Fracheboud, ocso was born at Vouvry, Switzerland on December 4, 1911. He studied at the College of St. Maurice Abbey, and entered the Trappist Abbey at Tamié in the French Alps on September 14, 1931. Five years later, he was ordained a priest. In 1939, Père André was forced, because of World War II, to cut short his graduate studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, and to return to his Abbey in France. There he served as Prior and as Novice-Master. Twenty years later, Père André was sent to Rome as Counselor to the Abbot-General, where he remained for eleven years. His next assignments were as chaplain to the Bernardine nuns of Valais and the Trappistine nuns at the Abbey of La Fille-Dieu, near Fribourg in Switzerland. Père André was indeed 'a man of God;' he died at Taméin August of 1998.