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Max Thurian was the subprior of the Taizé community, an ecumenical monastic community in France....
Brother Max Thurian (16 August 1921 in Geneva, Switzerland – 15 August 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland) was the subprior of the Taizé community, an ecumenical monastic community in France.
He was the subprior at Taizé from the time of its inception in the 1940s. During the Second Vatican Council, he was invited by Pope Paul VI to observe the liturgical reform of the Catholic Mass.
Brother Max Thurian (16 August in Geneva, Switzerland – 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland) was the subprior of the Taizé community, an ecumenical.
In 1969 he expressed that he was satisfied with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, under the belief that Protestants could receive Holy Communion along with Roman Catholics. This is false, however, as the Roman Catholic Church forbids non-Catholics from reception of Holy Communion at the Mass.
On 12 May 1988 Thurian converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest. On 24 July 1996 Thurian published an
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