Bernard de Give

Bernard de Give (8 May 1913 – 27 January 2020) was a Belgian priest and writer who became a monk of Scourmont Abbey.

[1] After his secondary studies at Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, de Give joined the Society of Jesus on 23 September 1931.

He returned to Belgium in 1955, taking courses in classical studies at the Juvénat de La Pairelle in Wépion.

He then published Greek and Latin textbooks, and became a professor of philosophy at the Faculté SJ d'Eegenhoven-Louvain, then at the Université de Namur.

On his 100th birthday, 8 May 2013, Scourmont Abbey published a collection of his poems, titled Quand l'âme chante.... Bernard de Give died on 27 January 2020 at the age of 106.