biography
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Michel, Virgil
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originally George Francis Michel
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| lived:
| (1890–1938)
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| biography:
| Religious leader, born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. A Benedictine priest with a doctorate from Catholic University, he was a pioneer of Catholic liturgical reform, and while teaching at St John's College (Minnesota), he founded the liturgical periodical Orate Fratres (1926, later Worship). Other concerns, also reflected in his writings, included Indian welfare (he worked among Chippewa Indians 1930–3), Thomistic philosophy, and social welfare. From 1935 he directed the St John's Institute for Social Studies. |
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