Category: 2008 News

Saint Vincent Gristmill Museum, Beatty Road, Unity Township, will host an exhibit, “Artisans of the Monastery,” November 1-15. The show will feature multimedia art by monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey. An opening reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, November 1. The show will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]

Five men have entered the novitiate at Saint Vincent Archabbey, where they will spend a year of discernment before professing first vows as Benedictine monks. All Pennsylvania residents, they hail from Upland, Kersey, Bethel Park, Connellsville and Elizabeth Township. Pio Adamonis, N.O.S.B. Brother Pio (Peter Paul) Adamonis, III, is the son of Peter P. and […]

Brother Bonaventure Curtis, O.S.B., an attorney from southern California, and Father Peter Augustine Pierjok, a priest from the Diocese of Peoria, will profess solemn vows as Benedictine monks at Saint Vincent Archabbey at 10 a.m. Friday, July 11, in the Archabbey Basilica. Bonaventure Curtis, O.S.B. Brother Bonaventure Curtis, O.S.B. Brother Bonaventure Curtis, O.S.B., a native […]

Four novices will take their first vows as Benedictine monks during vespers at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 10 at Saint Vincent Archabbey. The men include a Saint Vincent College graduate from Jeannette, Brother Michael Antonacci; a Carnegie native recently graduated from Saint John’s University, New York; Brother Gabriel Myriam Kurzawski; a former Kissimmee, Florida resident […]

Brother Michael J. Gabler, O.S.B.,will be ordained to the priesthood on Saturday, May 17, 2008, at Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica by the Most Rev. Lawrence E. Brandt, J.C.D., Ph.D. He is the son of Michael F. and Margaret A. Gabler of St. Marys. He attended St. Marys parochial school and is a 1985 graduate of […]

The Rev. Frank Ziemkiewicz, O.S.B., pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, has been named president of the Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, effective July 15, according to an announcement by the Rt. Rev. Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., Archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey, which sponsors the school. He will succeed the Rev. […]

Through his life and work Father Tom Devereux, O.S.B., P’50, C’52, S’59, showed hundreds of students over several decades that hard work and service to others can be fun. He did this through his roles as prefect, teacher, theatre producer/director and dean of students.Those who know, love and worked with Father Tom would agree he […]

When Father Thomas More Sikora, O.S.B., came to Saint Vincent Archabbey in 1988, one of the things he learned during his novitiate year was how to weave. Little did he know that weaving would play a role in the fabic of his monastic life. Now doing custom hand weaving from his Gristmill-based Artisans’ Workshop, Father […]

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, once said “Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”   Brother Mark Floreanini’s artwork epitomizes that statement in more ways that one-especially his work […]

Saint Vincent Archabbey and Seminary are sponsoring presentations of The Way of the Cross, a dramatic and musical presentation of the Stations of the Cross, March 6-9, 2008. Written by Brother Elijah Cirigliano, O.S.B., the show was performed 19 times in New York and Connecticut, before making its Pennsylvania debut in February 2007. The performance […]