Julius Raes

Julius (Jules) Raes (1884–1961), known in religion as Hildebrand and also under the pen name H. Cappaert, was a Belgian Capuchin historian and archivist.

[1] He attended the Capuchin-run Serafijns College in Bruges and on 28 September 1901 joined the Capuchin Order in Enghien, taking the religious name Hildebrand.

He was ordained to the priesthood in Enghien on 13 October 1907 and was sent to study at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he graduated Bachelor of Theology in 1909.

He taught Church History and Patristics at the Capuchin seminary in Izegem for two years before being sent to Rome, where he briefly worked at the Collegio Internazionale di San Lorenzo da Brindisi before returning to Belgium.

The publication was suspended after the first issue due to the First World War, during which Hildebrand was auxiliary assistant pastor (1914–1915) and then acting pastor (1916–1918) in Rollegem-Kapelle, in 1917–1918 also acting as chaplain to Italian prisoners of war that the Germans put to work on the front in Belgium.