Benno Gut

Benno Walter Cardinal Gut, OSB ( born April 1, 1897 in Reiden, Switzerland, † December 8, 1970 in Rome) was Abbot Primate of the Benedictine and later became a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

When Walter Good was born, he joined on 1 May 1918 in the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Einsiedeln, where he took the religious name Benno. He studied at the University of Basel, in the Order of the Benedictines of Saint Anselm College and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. After he had passed the final profession on January 6, 1918, he received in Rome on 10 July 1921, the sacrament of Holy Orders. This was followed up in 1923 further studies. Since 1923, Good worked in pastoral care of his abbey, before he went again to 1939 as of 1930 as a lecturer by Anselm. In 1939 he returned to the monastery Einsiedeln and worked at the local seminary school as a teacher and prefect. On 15 April 1947 he was elected by the Convention of the Benedictines at Maria Einsiedeln abbot and inaugurated on 5 May of the same year, and consecrated by the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, Filippo Bernardini.

The Congress of Abbots of Benedictine Confederation elected him on 24 November 1959 Abbot Primate; as such, he moved on again by St. Anselm in Rome. Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 10 June 1967 Titular Archbishop of Thuccabora. He received his episcopal consecration Cardinal Dean Eugène Cardinal Tisserant on June 18, 1967 in the Abbey of Einsiedeln. Co-consecrators were the bishops Joseph Hasler and John Vonderach. Shortly thereafter, on June 26 of the same year, he took the Pope a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Giorgio in Velabro in the College of Cardinals, and appointed him on 29 June 1967 Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation of Rites. For this reason he resigned on September 8, 1967, his position as Abbot Primate of the Benedictines. On May 7, 1969, he took over as head of the Congregation for the Sacraments as Cardinal Prefect.

After his death in 1970 he was buried in the Abbey of Einsiedeln Monastery.

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