Page 210 - March On! God will Provide by Brother Aubert

NOTES

l. (Chapter l) Rev. Theodore Beels, O. Praem., Prior of
Berne Abbey at Heeswijk from 1805 unril his death in 1837.
Considered the saviour of Abbey and, even to some degree of
the Praemonstratensians, because in 1810-1830 the Order was
suppressed in Belgium, France, and Germany. The abbey at
Berne was for a long time the only Norbertine monastery in
Western Europe. . . . Courtesy: Very Rev. H. Heijman, Berne
Abbey, North Brabant, Holland.
2. (Chapter 2) Le Sage was born Nov. 27, 1775, at Gro-
ningen, Holland, where his father, a Calvinist minister, was
professor at the local university. His father wanted him to
study theology; he preferred law. To the chagrin of his father,
Le Sage became a Catholic in 1806. In 1814-1815 he suddenly
developed into a "fighting" Catholic and practically gave up
the law to concenffate on the apostolate of the press. Until his
death in 1847 he was in the van of the fight for Catholic rights.
3. (ut supra) In search of a more ascetic life, Rev. Francis
Brunner had on July 21, 1829, transferred to Mont des Olives
from the Benedictine monastery of Maria Stein in Switzerland.
4. (ibid.) His advisor in Antwerp was Rev. Louis Donche,
S.J. Donche, a Jesuit from the days before the Society was
suppressed, had vouched for the young Netherlanders who
had joined the Jesuits in the United Srates so that they could
become missionaries among the Indians. For a cloak-and-
dagger story, cf. "The Belgian Recruits of 1821," Vol. I in
Garraghan's "The Jesuits of the Middle United States."
5. (Chapter 3) Abbot Placidus Ackermann, O.S.B., born
Jan. 6, 1765; ordained June 6, 1789; chosen Abbot of Maria
Stein, May 16, 1804; died Aug. 9, 1841. Father Felix, Rev.
Francis Brunner, who afterwards joined the Congregation of
the Precious Blood, in 1843 led the pioneering members of
that community to the United States. For further details about