and his filial love towards the Immaculate Virgin, be a light and inspiration for the Christians of our time.
Deign, O Lord, to grant the favour that we ask you by his intercession, so that his sanctity may be recognized by all and that the church may soon allow us to invoke him as the one of your blessed ones, one of your saints.
Through Jesus, the Christ, our Lord, Amen.
Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger
Aged about 16
Prosper Gueranger
Photograph
Young Abbot Gueranger
Prosper Gueranger
The Abbot of Solesmes
Abbey of Solesmes
Drawing c.1850
Solesmes 1753
St Mary Magdalen
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