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[[Image:Placide-Deseille.jpg|thumb|320px|right|Archimandrite Placide Deseille in St. Sergius Institute in Paris, May 25, 2004]]
Archimandrite '''Placide Deseille''' is a theologian and spiritual father of the Orthodox Church in France.
== Biography ==
Born in 1926in roman-catholic family, Father Placide first became a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Bellefontaine in 1942, at the age of sixteen.
In search of the authentic sources of Christianity and monasticism, he founded in 1966 with friends monks a monastery of the Byzantine Rite in Aubazine in Corrèze.
Archimandrite Placide is the author of numerous articles and booklets, many of which are published by the Monastery of St. Anthony the Great.
==Sources==
*http://www.monasteredesolan.com/histoire.php
*http://www.pagesorthodoxes.net/foi-orthodoxe/temoignage-placide-deseille.htm
* http://www.monasteredesolan.com/
[[fr:Placide (Deseille)]]
