Last week, EUCist's senior editorial staff made a trip to Zirc Abbey in order to visit the Cistercian Bibliographia . Relatively unknown This research center is an example of Cistercian profound scholarship. P. Leontius (pictured here), has been working on this since 1938, his days as a student. When the order was suppressed and persecuted under the Communist regime in Hungary, P. Leontius was imprisoned. After his release, he was given a job at the National Library in Budapest, but was not allowed to work as a priest or theologian. He continued his Cistercian scholarship in secret, spending thousands of hours collecting bibliographical information on anything that has Cistercian relevance. 
He recently turned 91, and he is still writing away. No one at the EUCist knows of a comparable scholarly collection. The only drawback is the fact that the bibliography is largely written on paper. Most of it is in Latin, German, French or English. More pictures follow:
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