ALLO, ERNEST. - Dominican exegete, Bernard Marie in religion, b. 3 Feb. 1873 at Quintin (Côtes-du-Nord), d. in Paris on 17 Jan. 1945.
He completed his literary studies at St-Brieuc, then at the Collège Stanislas in Paris; he was enrolled in the faculty of medicine when he entered the Order of Preachers (1896). Ordained priest, he was professor of theology at the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul (Iraq); he then studied at the Ecole biblique in Jerusalem. From 1905 he taught New Testament exegesis at the theological faculty of Fribourg in Switzerland; in 1930 he assumed there the chair of history of religions, established at his instigation; in 1938 he retired to Paris.
He wrote articles in the Revue Thomiste defending the objectivity of Catholic dogma (Foi et systèmes, Paris 1907). He published on the religions of India Plaies d'Europe et beaumes du Gange (Juvisy 1931). His best works are the commentaries (in the Etudes bibliques collection) on the two letters to the Corinthians (Paris 1935-37) and on the Apocalypse (Paris 1921, 3rd ed., ibid. 1933). In the Témoins de Dieu collection he published vol. I: Paul, Apôtre de J.-C. (Paris 1942), and IV: Evangile et Evangélistes (ibid. 1944). From 19 Feb. 1941 he was consultor to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Giovanni Ongaro