Dom Louis Villecourt OSB., died at Farnborough Abbey on April 17, 1928 aged fifty-eight, in the twenty-seventh year of his religious profession. From his entry into the Order he gave such time as he could spare from his monastic duties to Oriental studies, becoming in time an authority on Arabic and Coptic Christian literature. During the European War his studies were put aside in order that he might serve in hospitals in France. Returning home after the war, he at once resumed his old studious habits, publishing many articles connected with his own subjects in the 'Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique' of Louvain, the 'Revue de Orient Chretien' of Paris and the 'Analecta Bollandiana'. A brilliant paper was presented by him in 1920 to the Paris Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in which he showed that the "Spiritual Homilies" attributed to St. Macarius of Egypt were really the composition of some Messalian or Euchite heretic - a thesis accepted by Bardenheuer and the majority of critics. Dom Villecourt's principal work however - not yet published - is a translation of 'La Lampe des tenebres', the great ecclesiastical encyclopedia of the Coptic Church, written in Arabic about A.D. 1320 by the Jacobite priest Abu'l-Barakat. The first installment of this work would eventually shortly appear in the 'Patrologia Orientalis of Mgr. Graffin' and Mgr. Tisserant of the Vatican Library published the last part. Dom Villecourt was a monk first and a savant as time allowed and was always ready to quit his studies for any work more directly connected with his community, as when he was appointed procurator and found a large part of his time taken up with the temporalities of his Abbey. All who knew him will bear witness to his gentleness of character and his love of hard work, the courage which led him to face the difficulties of his arduous studies made him face bravely also a long and trying illness. He left a reputation and an example known far beyond his monastic home. His burial took place in the Abbey cemetery on Thursday two days after his death, following a requiem sung by Abbot du Boisrouvray. The absolution was given by Abbot Cabrol.