Christian Asceticism by Anselm Stolz, OSBAnselm Stolz, the author of this book, was a Benedictine monk of the German abbey of Gerleve. He was called to Rome to teach theology at SantAnselmo, the Roman Benedictine college, until his early death from typhus in 1942. In his life and teaching, as his confrre Elmar Salmann points out, he united Christian belief and Christian living, he not only talked the talk in books and lectures, he walked the walk, in his life and death. A lifetime later,