Boniface Luykx

Boniface Luykx (1915-2004) was a Belgian Norbertine priest, professor, and liturgical scholar.He was a leader of the Catholic Liturgical Movement in the 1940s and 1950s, and taught for many years in the Summer School of Liturgy at Notre Dame University.During the years 1960 to 1971 he was a missionary in Africa, where he founded the Monastère de l’Assomption and taught at the University of Lovanium in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).Tabor) Monastery, located in Northern California and part of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.In 1988 he was given the honorary title Archimandrite, which in the Eastern Christian Churches denotes the spiritual father of one or more monasteries.
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