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Saint Anselm, a child of Aosta (1033), monk and abbot of Bec (1059-1093) and archbishop-primate of Canterbury, died in 1109. He remains famous for the proof of God's existence he proposed in his "Proslogium" (1078). So did he try to deduce God's existence from a prior notion: that of the most perfect being conceivable? All the texts suggest the contrary: the negative substance of the Name he attributes to God: ‘You are such that nothing greater can be thought', and the negative procedure of the proof, show that he attempts to describe the penetration of the divine Word as deeply as possible into our hearts, in order to lead us away from our sufficiency and direct us toward something greater than ourselves. Since there is no longer any distance between ontology and Christology, the God he confesses is indeed the father of Jesus-Christ, God beyond all notion of God in the Alliance that he seals ‘for once and all' with Man (Romans 6,10)."