ABSTRACT
The rediscovery in modern times of John of Fécamp (d. 1078) is a saga involving some of the greatest Benedictine scholars of all time. John’s writings were transmitted together with other writings, spurious and genuine, attributed to Augustine, Cassian, Anselm and Bernard of Clairvaux. Three modern scholars—Mabillon, 1 Wilmart, 2 Leclercq 3 —separated out what is genuinely John’s and showed him to be an important and influential writer. His most important work is a collection of prayers which was called the Theological Confession in its first recension, and in its revised versions the Book on the Writings and Words of the Fathers, and the Confession of Faith. 4
