Anselm Schott OSB born September 5, 1843 in Staufeneck, municipality of Salach; died April 23, 1896 in

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, was a German Benedictine monk. His name is associated with a widely used prayer book, reprinted many times since its initial publication in 1884, which presented the most important Catholic liturgical book, the

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, in German, "adapted for lay use", to be read alongside the Latin liturgy. The name "(the) Schott" became synonymous for the book because of its popularity and has been a

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since 1928.https://www.maria-laach.de/aktuelles/nachrichten/125.-todestag-von-p.-anselm-schott.html The book also contained detailed explanatory comments on the

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Life

Friedrich August Schott was born on 5 September, 1843 in Staufeneck Castle, as a child of Eduard Schott, a tenant farmer from the Counts of Degenfeld, and his wife Maria Antonia. After studying

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in Tübingen and Munich he entered the Rottenburg seminary on 10 October, 1866. He was ordained a priest in Rottenburg on 10 August, 1867 and worked as a vicar in

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. In the autumn of 1868 he entered the

Archabbey of Beuron Beuron Archabbey (in German Erzabtei Beuron, otherwise Erzabtei St. Martin; in Latin ''Archiabbatia Sancti Martini Beuronensis''; Swabian: ''Erzabtei Beira'') is a major house of the Benedictine Order located at Beuron in the upper Danube vall ...

, where he took the religious name ''Anselm''. After the

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he made his

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on in June, 1870 and his solemn vows on Trinity Sunday in 1873. After the Abbey of Beuron was closed down as a result of the

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in 1875, Anselm Schott was sent to various other monasteries of the Benedictine order. From 1876 to 1881 he was subprior at

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near Dinant in Belgium. From 1881 to 1883 he worked at the

Emmaus Monastery The Emmaus Monastery ( cs, Emauzy or ''Emauzský klášter''), called Na Slovanech in the Middle Ages, is an abbey established in 1347 in Prague. It was the only Benedictine monastery of the Kingdom of Bohemia and all Slavic Europe. In the 1360 ...

in Prague and from 1883 to 1891 at the Seckau Abbey in Styria. In 1892 he went to the

Maria Laach Abbey Maria Laach Abbey (in German: ''Abtei Maria Laach'', in Latin: ''Abbatia Maria Lacensis'' or ''Abbatia Maria ad Lacum'') is a Benedictine abbey situated on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See (Lake Laach), near Andernach, in the Eifel r ...

, where he died in 1896.

References

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