CAGIN, PAUL. - Liturgist, b. at Béthune on 7 June 1847, d. at Solesmes on 8 Apr. 1923. Having entered the Benedictine Order in 1879 and been ordained a priest in 1885, he was a tireless worker and a bold investigator, one of the masters of liturgical science.

To him are owed: Un mot sur l'Antiphonale Missarum (Solesmes 1890), concerning the liturgical work of St. Gregory the Great; the publication of an Ambrosian antiphonary, in vols. V and VI of the Paléographie Musicale (Solesmes 1896); with commentaries and observations fundamental for the Ambrosian liturgy; the edition of the Ambrosian Sacramentary of Bergamo in the Auctarium Solesmense (1900); a study on Eucologia latina: Te Deum ou Illatio?, contribution à l'histoire de l'Euchologie latine à propos des origines du Te Deum (Solesmes 1906); L'Eucharistie, canon primitif de la Messe ou formulaire essentiel et premier de toutes les liturgies (Paris 1912), a keen dissertation on the formation of the canon, which was followed by the Anaphore Apostolique (ibid. 1919), which aroused much criticism; besides numerous articles in various journals.

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BIBL.: Anon., P. C., in Revue liturg. et monast., (1923), p. 292-93; id., in Ephemerides liturgicae, 37 (1923), p. 282.

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