Pierre-Andre Burton, OCSO, is abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Marie du Desert. After receiving a degree at the Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, he entered Notre-Dame de Scourmont Abbey (Chimay) in 1987; he transferred his stability to Desert in 1999. He is on the editorial board of Citeaux. His Aelred de Rievaulx (1110-1167): Essai de Biographie Existentielle et Spirituelle appeared in 2010, with a supplement in A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), in Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 76 (Brill, 2017). The two volumes of his Vers l'infini d'une autre lumiere, containing several of his articles from Citeaux and Collectanea Cisterciensia, were published in 2013 by Pain de Citeaux.
