name

Joseph-Marie Canivez

Marie-Joseph Canivez

                 baptismal name

Ovide Ernest Ursmer Ghislain

                                 born

November 20, 1878 in Binche (B)

                higher education

Lateran University (Rome) 

                  ordained priest

October 8, 1905 in Tournai

         begin of monastic life

September 1899 in Scourmont

April 1902 monastic profession in Cîteaux

April 25, 1905 solemn profession in Scourmont

                  responsibilities

Sept. 1900 - 1903 novice and monk

in the new settled abbey of Cîteaux

professor of the Holy Scripture in Scourmont

1908 master of ceremonies

member of the Liturgical Commission ocso

preacher in the secular chapel 

Novice master of choir-monks

1924 - 1952 librarian

editor of the "Statuta Capitulorum generalium

Ordinis Cisterciensis"

                                  died

November 24, 1952 in Scourmont

                               buried

November 26, 1952 in Scourmont