Born in Pittsburgh in 1877 and raised in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, he attended the parochial school attached to the Benedictine church of the Most Blessed Sacrament before entering the scholasticate at Saint Vincent at the age of thirteen. Completing his studies at the college and seminary in 1899, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Richard Phelan of Pittsburgh and for the next nineteen years served at the Archabbey of St. Vincent in various capacities, first as professor in the classical course, and then, after 1911, as prefect and professor of Latin and Greek in the seminary. An accomplished Latinist and for twenty-five years - since his novitiate - master of ceremonies in the monastery, he founded and later served as chancellor of the Catholic University of Pekin, China.
Director of the St. Emma Agricultural and Industrial school, Rock Castel, Virginia, graduated as a doctor of divinity in Rome and doctor of laws from Notre Dame. Appointed as the first Benedictine Archabbot of the United States, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while in Cleveland during a meeting of the Propagation of the Faith, passing away a month later at St. Francis Hospital in his native Pittsburgh due to various complications including diseases related to a severe cold caught which he caught on the previous Christmas period. His 1915 publication "Manual for Episcopal Ceremonies", attracted in his days a considerable attention.
Director of the St. Emma Agricultural and Industrial school, Rock Castel, Virginia, graduated as a doctor of divinity in Rome and doctor of laws from Notre Dame. Appointed as the first Benedictine Archabbot of the United States, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while in Cleveland during a meeting of the Propagation of the Faith, passing away a month later at St. Francis Hospital in his native Pittsburgh due to various complications including diseases related to a severe cold caught which he caught on the previous Christmas period. His 1915 publication "Manual for Episcopal Ceremonies", attracted in his days a considerable attention.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1877 and raised in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, he attended the parochial school attached to the Benedictine church of the Most Blessed Sacrament before entering the scholasticate at Saint Vincent at the age of thirteen. Completing his studies at the college and seminary in 1899, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Richard Phelan of Pittsburgh and for the next nineteen years served at the Archabbey of St. Vincent in various capacities, first as professor in the classical course, and then, after 1911, as prefect and professor of Latin and Greek in the seminary. An accomplished Latinist and for twenty-five years - since his novitiate - master of ceremonies in the monastery, he founded and later served as chancellor of the Catholic University of Pekin, China.
Director of the St. Emma Agricultural and Industrial school, Rock Castel, Virginia, graduated as a doctor of divinity in Rome and doctor of laws from Notre Dame. Appointed as the first Benedictine Archabbot of the United States, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while in Cleveland during a meeting of the Propagation of the Faith, passing away a month later at St. Francis Hospital in his native Pittsburgh due to various complications including diseases related to a severe cold caught which he caught on the previous Christmas period. His 1915 publication "Manual for Episcopal Ceremonies", attracted in his days a considerable attention.
Director of the St. Emma Agricultural and Industrial school, Rock Castel, Virginia, graduated as a doctor of divinity in Rome and doctor of laws from Notre Dame. Appointed as the first Benedictine Archabbot of the United States, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while in Cleveland during a meeting of the Propagation of the Faith, passing away a month later at St. Francis Hospital in his native Pittsburgh due to various complications including diseases related to a severe cold caught which he caught on the previous Christmas period. His 1915 publication "Manual for Episcopal Ceremonies", attracted in his days a considerable attention.
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