William Crilly was born in Chicago on August 30, 1930, and baptized on September 28, in the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. He received his elementary education at St. Patrick's Academy, Chicago and was an honor student at Fenwick High School, Oak Park. He pursued two years of college studies at De Paul University in Chicago prior to entering the Dominican Order.
In September 1950, he was clothed with the habit at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, where he made profession on September 27, of the following year. Philosophical and theological studies followed in River Forest and Dubuque where he was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1957. Shortly after ordination he was sent to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland for graduate work.
In Fribourg, he received the lectorate and licentiate in theology along with a doctorate in philosophy and then returned to the United States to begin his brief professorial career in the House of Studies, River Forest. In addition to studium teaching, he was a lecturer for the Thomist Association, taught for two years in the Archdiocesan Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, and re-organized the whole economic system of the Dominican House and School of Philosophy, known as the Aquinas Institute.
Father Crilly also served as procurator of the House of Studies and subsequently as subprior. His promising ministry was brought to an end by his sudden death on November 17, 1969. After services at the House of Studies, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
In September 1950, he was clothed with the habit at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, where he made profession on September 27, of the following year. Philosophical and theological studies followed in River Forest and Dubuque where he was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1957. Shortly after ordination he was sent to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland for graduate work.
In Fribourg, he received the lectorate and licentiate in theology along with a doctorate in philosophy and then returned to the United States to begin his brief professorial career in the House of Studies, River Forest. In addition to studium teaching, he was a lecturer for the Thomist Association, taught for two years in the Archdiocesan Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, and re-organized the whole economic system of the Dominican House and School of Philosophy, known as the Aquinas Institute.
Father Crilly also served as procurator of the House of Studies and subsequently as subprior. His promising ministry was brought to an end by his sudden death on November 17, 1969. After services at the House of Studies, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
William Crilly was born in Chicago on August 30, 1930, and baptized on September 28, in the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. He received his elementary education at St. Patrick's Academy, Chicago and was an honor student at Fenwick High School, Oak Park. He pursued two years of college studies at De Paul University in Chicago prior to entering the Dominican Order.
In September 1950, he was clothed with the habit at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, where he made profession on September 27, of the following year. Philosophical and theological studies followed in River Forest and Dubuque where he was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1957. Shortly after ordination he was sent to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland for graduate work.
In Fribourg, he received the lectorate and licentiate in theology along with a doctorate in philosophy and then returned to the United States to begin his brief professorial career in the House of Studies, River Forest. In addition to studium teaching, he was a lecturer for the Thomist Association, taught for two years in the Archdiocesan Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, and re-organized the whole economic system of the Dominican House and School of Philosophy, known as the Aquinas Institute.
Father Crilly also served as procurator of the House of Studies and subsequently as subprior. His promising ministry was brought to an end by his sudden death on November 17, 1969. After services at the House of Studies, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
In September 1950, he was clothed with the habit at St. Peter Martyr Priory, Winona, Minnesota, where he made profession on September 27, of the following year. Philosophical and theological studies followed in River Forest and Dubuque where he was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1957. Shortly after ordination he was sent to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland for graduate work.
In Fribourg, he received the lectorate and licentiate in theology along with a doctorate in philosophy and then returned to the United States to begin his brief professorial career in the House of Studies, River Forest. In addition to studium teaching, he was a lecturer for the Thomist Association, taught for two years in the Archdiocesan Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, and re-organized the whole economic system of the Dominican House and School of Philosophy, known as the Aquinas Institute.
Father Crilly also served as procurator of the House of Studies and subsequently as subprior. His promising ministry was brought to an end by his sudden death on November 17, 1969. After services at the House of Studies, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois.
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