On Monday, 1 November, the Feast of All Saints, Collegio Sant’Anselmo was pleased to welcome The Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Gallagher as the celebrant for our Feast. Archbishop Gallagher is the current Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and Titular Archbishop of Hodelm in Scotland.
The next day, on Tuesday, 2 November, a group of Collegio Sant’Anselmo community members visited Verano Monumental Cemetery, the famous 20-centuries-old burial site east of central Rome. Here is the resting place of those monks who died at Sant’Anselmo in the years before it was possible for them to be buried in their home countries.
Abbot Primate Gregory Polan led the prayer service along with Prior Mauritius Wilde, who read the prayers and letters of the ceremony.
Afterward, Prior Mauritius read out loud from a document researched by a former resident of the collegio, Meinrad Hötzel, of Kloster Einsiedeln in Switzerland. The document lists the names and dates of the monks in the cemetery as well as their roles at Sant’Anselmo. Most of the listings have photos. The group found the document fascinating. The link to the pdf is below.
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Meeting at the Basilica of Sant’Anselmo with the Benedictine and Dominican communities, Pope Leo XIV began the Lenten Stational Church pilgrimage, moving in penitential procession to the Basilica of Santa Sabina.
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.
