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Benedictine Syriac and Armenian scholar. He was born in Namur and studied in
Lyon and Rome. From 1959–61 he taught biblical exegesis and Armenian at San
Anselmo, Rome, and from 1973–82 Armenian and Ethiopic at the Catholic
University of Louvain. For extended periods he served as Novice Master in
the Abbey of St. Maurice in Clairvaux (Luxembourg), and then at the Abbey of
St. Paul de Wisques (France). In 1953–54 Leloir re-edited the Armenian
translation of
Dictionnaire de
Spiritualité. Given his expertise in Armenian, he was also able to
write authoritatively on the relationship between Syriac and Armenian
literature (in contributions to
OCA
205 [1978] and
221 [1983]). His work in the Armenian field was largely concerned with the
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the Sayings of the Desert Fathers (apart
from Ephrem).