1952 CENTILUX FRANKING ON COMMERCIAL-RATE COVER
CLERVAUX TO DOM PIERRE SALMON
ROME ITALY
Clervaux tourist cancel, 26 Aug 1952
Roma Borghi, 28 Aug 1952
Roma mch cancel, 28 Aug 1952
Rate:
20-40g UPU cover [4F/20g & 2.50F/add'l 20g] = 6.50F
80c and 2.50F (2) Centilux with 10c and 60c Charlotte (4th)
Addressed to Dom Pierre Salmon (1896-1982)
Abbot of the Abbey of St. Jerome-in-the-City, for the Revision and Emendation of the Vulgate, at Rome, Italy, from 1935 to 1964. Titular Bishop of Lucundiana (Algeria), from 1964 until his death in 1982. Dom Pierre Francois Jean-Baptiste Salmon, O.S.B., was a Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maur at Clervaux, Luxembourg. Ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 20, 1924, Dom Pierre attended the Gregorian University in Rome, and was an expert in the fields of Monasticism, Patristics, and the Liturgy. He served as Prior and Procurator at Clervaux, before being sent to Rome in 1935 to lead the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate, the Latin Bible of St. Jerome, after the death of Abbot Henri Quentin. Named a bishop by Pope Paul VI in June of 1964, Dom Pierre attended several sessions of the Second Vatican Council. Bishop Pierre Salmon authored several books, including, "The Breviary Through the Centuries" (1962), and "The Abbot in Monastic Tradition: A Contribution to the History of the Perpetual Character of the Office of Religious Superiors in the West" (1972). He spent a total of 46 years working and studying in Rome, but he returned to the abbey at Clervaux in 1981, one year before his death there at age 85.
