On Saturday, 4 July 2026, Fr. Placidus (Egon) Berger, OSB, was called by the Lord to eternal glory at Münsterschwarzach Abbey. He was born in 1933 in Würzburg and grew up in Ebrach, near the former Cistercian Abbey. He entered Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1952, made his monastic profession in 1953, and was ordained to the