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BLOG: Subiaco Alumni Association
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Subiaco Academy Alumni Association, Fr. Hugh (our archivist and historian) provided the following as background information: It was in 1887 that a “high school” was started by Subiaco Abbey, which itself was then known as “St. Benedict’s Priory.” The school was called “St. Benedict’s…
BLOG: The Womb of Lent
The Hebrews celebrated the month of the Passover, Nisan, which often overlaps March and April in our calendar, as the beginning of the year (Ezek 45:21). The early Christians followed this in their annual celebration of the new Passover, the death and resurrection of Jesus, as the new beginning of the year of faith. In…
BLOG: Rodolpho Pereyra
Fr. Hugh, our resident monk archivist and historian, provided the following interesting story: On April 25, 1940, occurred the first death of a student at Subiaco Academy. This was the drowning of a 17-year old Junior in the recently completed Cove Lake some miles south of the abbey. Rodolpho Pereyra was the son of a…
NEWS: New Monks, New Names
Investiture of one man as a novice and profession of two as Benedictine monks took place in the Abbey Church February 1-2, 2013. During Vespers on February 2, 2013, two men presented written and signed petitions to Abbot Jerome who then welcomed their public profession of monastic vows for three years. Reflecting this change in their state of life, the…
BLOG: The Martyr Polycarp
We don’t know much about the first Christian martyrs from the time immediately after the New Testament. Let me take that back. We have stories about some of the earliest Christian martyrs, such as those named in the Roman Canon of the Mass — Linus, Clement, Cletus, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia – but the earliest records…