Dom Joseph-Marie, born Ovide Ernest Ursmer Ghislain Canivez (1878–1952), was a Belgian historian of the

Cistercian order The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint B ...

and a monk of

Scourmont Abbey Scourmont Abbey (''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont'') is a Trappist monastery on the Scourmont plateau, in the village of Forges which is part of Chimay in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The abbey is famous for its spiritual life and for runnin ...

Life

Canivez was born in

Binche Binche (; wa, Bince; Dutch: ''Bing'') is a city and municipality from Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Since 1977, the municipality consists of Binche, Bray, Buvrinnes, Épinois, Leval-Trahegnies, Péronnes-lez-Binche, Ressaix, an ...

on 20 November 1878. He was educated at Bonne-Espérance junior seminary (in the former

Bonne-Espérance Abbey Bonne-Espérance Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey that existed from 1130 to the end of the 18th century, located in Vellereille-les-Brayeux in the Walloon municipality of Estinnes, province of Hainaut, Diocese of Tournai, in present-day Belgi ...

) and in September 1899 entered the Trappist monastery at Scourmont, taking the name Joseph-Marie.Emile Brouette, "Canivez (Ovide-Ernest-Ursmer-Ghislain)", ''

Biographie Nationale de Belgique The ''Biographie nationale de Belgique'' ( French; "National Biography of Belgium") is a biographical dictionary of Belgium. It was published by the Royal Academy of Belgium in 44 volumes between 1866 and 1986. A continuation series, entitled the ' ...

''
vol. 37
(Brussels, 1971), 117-120. In 1905 he made his final vows on 25 April and was ordained priest on 8 October. In 1913-1914 he studied

canon law Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...

in Rome. In 1926 he began to publish historical research into the history of his order, particularly in Belgium. He died at Scourmont Abbey in Forges-lez-Chimay on 24 November 1952.

Writings

Canivez contributed 351 entries to the ''

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques'' is an encyclopaedia founded by the future cardinal Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart in 1912. This immense and exhaustive work is currently edited by Luc Courtois and Eddy Louchez of the ...

'', including those on

Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. ( la, Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templars, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through ...

and

Cîteaux Abbey Cîteaux Abbey (french: Abbaye de Cîteaux, links=no ) is a Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France. It is notable for being the original house of the Cistercian order. Today, it belongs to the Trappists ...

, and was also a contributor to the ''Dictionnaire de droit canonique''. His other works include: * ''L'Ordre de Cîteaux en Belgique des origines (1132) au XXe siècle'' (Forges-lez-Chimay, 1926). * "Auctarium D. Caroli De Visch ad Bibliothecam scriptorum Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis", ''Cistercienser Chronik'', 38 (1926), pp. 153-232. * Nicolas Tillière, ''Histoire de l'abbaye d'Orval'', 3rd edition revised by Joseph-Marie Canivez (Gembloux, 1927) * as editor, ''Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis Cisterciensis ab anno 1116 ad annum 1786'' (8 vols., Louvain, 1933-1941) * "Étonnantes concessions pontificales faites à Cîteaux", in ''Miscellanea historica in honorem Alberti de Meyer'', vol. 1 (Louvain, 1946), pp. 505-519. * "Le rite cistercien", ''Ephemerides liturgicae'', 63 (1949), pp. 276-311.

References

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