Rene Matthew Kollar

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Rene Matthew Kollar OSB (born June 21, 1947 in Hastings , Pennsylvania ) is an American Roman Catholic monk , priest and historian .

Life

In 1967 he joined the Benedictine monastery community of the Archabbey of St. Vincent and took the simple vows on July 11, 1968 and the solemn vows on July 11, 1971. The Bishop of Greensburg William Connare consecrated him on May 18, 1974. He was ordained a priest by the Archbishop in the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica .

Kollar attended Saint Vincent Prep School. He studied from 1965 to 1970 at Saint Vincent College (BA 1970), from 1970 to 1973 at Saint Vincent Seminary M. Div. (1973), from 1978 to 1980 at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London and at the University of Maryland (MA 1975 and Ph.D. 1981). He teaches as a professor of history at Saint Vincent College.

Fonts (selection)

  • Westminster Cathedral. From dream to reality . Faith & Life Publications, Edinburgh 1987, ISBN 0948095253 .
  • The Return of the Benedictines to London. The History of Ealing Abbey from 1896 to Independence . Burns and Oates, Tunbridge Wells 1989, ISBN 0860121755 .
  • Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Caldey Island, and the Anglo-Catholic Revival in England (= American University Studies. Series VII Theology and Religion. Volume 177). Peter Lang, New York 1995, ISBN 0820424692 (also dissertation, University of Maryland 1981).
  • A universal appeal. Aspects of the Revival of Monasticism in the West in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries . International Scholars Publications, San Francisco 1996, ISBN 1573090034 .
  • Searching for Raymond. Anglicanism, Spiritualism, and Bereavement between the Two World Wars . Lexington Books, Lanham 2000, ISBN 0739101617 .
  • as editor: A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England . James Clarke & Co, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 022767992X .
  • as editor: A Nun, a Convent, and the German Occupation of Belgium. Mother Marie Georgine's Diary of World War I . Pickwick Publications, Eugene 2016, ISBN 149829894X .

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personal data
SURNAME Kollar, Rene Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hastings, Pennsylvania