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The Love of Learning and the Desire God: A Study of Monastic Culture

by Jean Leclercq · 1961

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The Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the Institute of Monastic Studies at Sant'Anselmo in Rome during the winter of 1955-56.

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