Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race-troubled Detroit last week, at the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, Solemn High Mass was celebrated by a tall, handsome Negro whose brown face and hands contrasted dramatically with the shining white of his alb. The Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, O.S.B., reputedly the first of his race to be ordained a Benedictine priest, had been invited by the Roman Catholic diocese to further its drive for interracial amity...
Irresistible Vocation. Father Matthews' parents were school superintendents on Britain's tropical, oil-rich island of Trinidad. As a boy, young Basil often climbed the hill, eleven miles from Port of Spain, to visit the monastery of Mount St. Benedict, first West Indian outpost of the Benedictine order. Irresistibly drawn to "the splendor of the liturgical life" he found there, at 14 he was discussing his vocation with the prior...
Three years later Mount St. Benedict admitted him, gave him basic training and two years of philosophy, sent him on to the Benedictine College of Theology at Belgium's University of Louvain. Ordained a priest in 1935, Father Matthews took extension courses from University Correspondence College, Cambridge, came to the U.S. and Fordham on a scholarship...
...success in the U.S. and his opportunity for service there as "ambassador of interracial justice and charity," Father Matthews' heart and head belong to Trinidad and Mount St. Benedict. He looks forward to his return next spring to continue working on his chief study-the cultural forms of his own people as a matrix of the Gospel of Christ...
Following a Republican gathering held October 2 which was addressed by gubernatorial candidate Robert Bradford, the program for tonight includes John F. Kennedy, Congressional aspirant from the 11th District; Thomas J. Buckley, state auditor up for reelection; and Benedict F. Fitzgerald, the party's bid for secretary of state...