In 1939, he travelled to the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach in Germany, to study liturgy but when the Second World War started in that same year, he quickly returned to Spain.
Godine 1939., otputovao je u benediktinski samostan Maria Laach u Njemačkoj, na studij liturgije, ali kad je Drugi svjetski rat izbio te iste godine, brzo se vratio u Španjolsku.