FÉROTIN, MARIUS

Benedictine, historian of the liturgy; b. Chateauneufdu-Rhône, France, Nov. 18, 1855; d. Farnborough, Sept. 15, 1914. Having studied under the monks of Hautecombe, he entered solesmes in 1876 and was a monk at silos, Spain (1881–92), and farnborough, England (1895–1914). An eminent liturgist, he was a specialist in the mozarabic rite and an outstanding historian of Spain. His publications include Catalogo de los manuscriptos del Padre Sarmiento existentes in Silos [Indice … del Padre Sarmiento (Madrid 1888)]; Histoire de l'abbaye de Silos (Paris 1897); Le Liber Ordinum en usage dans l'église wisigothique et mozarabe (Paris 1904); Monumenta ecclesiae liturgica, v.5; Le Liber Mozarabicus sacramentorum et les manuscrits mozarabes (Paris 1912), v.6 of Mon. eccles. lit. He collaborated on the Dictionnaire de la Bible, on the Mois bibliographique (1893–97) v. 1–5; the Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (1900–02) v. 61–63, a letter of hugh of cluny to Bernard of Agen; two Visigothic manuscripts in the library of Ferdinand I, in the Revue des questions historiques [v. 74 (October 1903)], an important article identifying the real author of the Peregrinatio Aetheriae (Silviae).

Bibliography: f. cabrol, Journal of Theological Studies 16 (1914–15) 305–313; Bulletin de S. Martin et S. Benoît (Ligugé1915) 19–24. f. cabrol and h. leclercq, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienneet de liturgie, ed. f. cabrol, h. leclercq and h. i. marrou, 15 v. (Paris 1907–53) 5.1:1382–98.

[j. daoust]