As we do every year, the new residents of Collegio Sant’Anselmo paid a visit to the Grotto of Saint Benedict in Subiaco, Italy. They were Macarius Chulle OSB and Cassian Shayo OSB (Tanzania), Luigi Corsello OSB (Italy), Kokila Fernando OSB (Sri Lanka), José-Luis Francisco OSB (Mexico), Santiago Garcia-Mata OSB (Argentina), Raban Heyer OSB and Israel Sanchez OSB (United States of America), Arsanius Jawargy OSB (Egypt), Immanuel Lupardi OSB (Germany), Columba McCann OSB (Ireland), Henri Poujol OSB (France), Christos Vattis (Greece), Nikodem Kowalczyk (Poland), Lucien Niyonzima (Burundi), and Benedict Ehrenwirt (Germany), together with the Ateneo Registrar Fr. Josep Maria Sanromà OSB and Prior Mauritius Wilde OSB. Not pictured: Eric Koffi (Costa D’Avario), Felix Davordzi (Ghana), Peter Mapenga (Zambia), Jake Kutina and Austin O’Keefe (United States of America).
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Roman institutions are accustomed to change, and Sant’Anselmo is currently experiencing a significant amount of it. Our bursar/treasurer is being replaced, and the membership of the Abbot Primate’s Finance Commission is also being renewed.
Dom Geraldo González y Lima OSB, long-serving treasurer of the Benedictine Confederation in Rome, has been elected the fourth Abbot of São Geraldo Abbey in São Paulo, Brazil, returning to his home community.
Collegio Sant’Anselmo hosted a visit by young priests and monks from the Oriental Orthodox Churches as part of an annual study visit. The event fostered Christian unity, echoing the call of the Second Vatican Council and Pope John Paul II.
