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On the Sunday before the wedding, two of them—the abbot emeritus Padre Norberto Villa and his colleague Padre Paolo Maria Censori—filed into the Chapel of the Dead to celebrate Mass.
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Max Norman, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot.
—Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
They would be led by an older, more experienced person – an abbot.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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Max Norman, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot.
—Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
They would be led by an older, more experienced person – an abbot.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
As the village abbot never far from the woods, or from Martine’s little dining room table, Jacques Develay manages the trick of utter simplicity in his motives and line readings.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Abbot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbot. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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abbot
noun
ab·bot
ˈab-ət 
: the head of a monastery for men
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