Aelred Sillem (29 October 1908 – 19 May 1994) was second abbot of

Quarr Abbey Quarr Abbey ( French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr'') is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (rhyming with "for"). It belongs to the Catho ...

, on the Isle of Wight, from 1964 to 1992. Sillem was educated at Haileybury and

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, and received the habit at the Benedictine abbey of St Gregory, Downside, in 1929. He studied theology in Munich in the years 1931–1933 and then in 1934 asked to be transferred to

, on the Isle of Wight. He was ordained a priest at Quarr's mother abbey, Solesmes, in France, on 22 August 1937. He was Superior of the Solesmes Congregation community at

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in the difficult years of 1941–1947. Returning to Quarr, he occupied important posts and was appointed Prior in 1951. Upon the retirement of Abbot

Marie-Gabriel Tissot Marie-Gabriel Tissot (1886 - 1983), in 1937 become the first Abbot of Quarr Abbey, England in modern times. Biography Tissot was born in France in 1886, and after studies in the seminary of Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris, Saint-Sulpice, in 1906 he e ...

, he was elected AbbotQuarr Abbey website, ''People of Quarr''
/ref> on 3 May 1964. For many years he served as an Abbot Assistant to the Abbot of Solesmes and held the role of retreat preacher and confessor. He retired in 1992 and died peacefully at Quarr. He was succeeded as abbot by Dom

Leo Avery Leo Avery (5 January 1938 - 4 July 1996) was third Abbot of Quarr Abbey, on the Isle of Wight, from 1992 to 1996. Biography Leo was born 5 January 1938, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, and raised in Maidstone, Kent, England. After studies in A ...

. He appears in

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's autobiography, '' Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul''.

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