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John Dillon wrote:
> 
> In the notice of Hermann Joseph:
>> At the age of twelve H. tried to enter the Premonstratensian abbey at
>> Steinfeld (in today's Kreis Euskirchen in Nordrhein-Westfalen) as a
>> monk. 
> 
> Delete "as a monk".  Premonstratensians are of course canons.

But monastic ones. Calling them monks is not totally incorrect.

John Briggs

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