COELHO, ANTONIO

COELHO, ANTONIO. – Liturgist, b. at Braga on 24 May 1892, d. at Singeverga on 20 Dec. 1938. A Benedictine monk, he spent several years studying at the abbeys of Maredsous and Mont-César.

Upon returning to Portugal, he founded the periodical Opus Dei, which was succeeded in 1931 by Mesageiro de S. Bento. He is the author of a Corso di liturgia romana, translated into various languages (5 vols., Turin 1935 ff.), a work not without importance, in which the rubricist aspect is more developed than the scholarly part.

Silverio Mattei

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“COELHO, ANTONIO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), p. 1124. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/coelho-antonio.