Category: 2015

Saint Vincent Seminary will honor Most Rev. Lawrence T. Persico, Bishop of Erie, as an Alumnus of Distinction at the annual Alumni Day Mass, to be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 29 in the Archabbey Basilica. Very Rev. Edward Mazich, O.S.B., Seminary rector, will serve as homilist at the Mass. Bishop Persico will be […]

The Diocese of Greensburg and Saint Vincent Archabbey, College, and Seminary will hold the 48th annual Red Mass, for members of the bench and bar, at noon Friday, October 2 at Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica. Bishop Edward C. Malesic will preside at the Mass and give the homily. The keynote address will be given by […]

Saint Vincent Seminary welcomed 20 new students in 2015. They are from seven dioceses and six monasteries, including the dioceses of Altoona-Johnstown; Beijing, China; Covington, Kentucky; Erie; Metuchen, New Jersey; Pittsburgh and Steubenville, Ohio; Conception Abbey, Missouri; Saint Andrew Abbey, Cleveland; Saint Joseph Monastery, Lucerne Valley, California; Saint Peters Abbey, Muenster, Saskatchewan, Canada; Saint Vincent […]

A Scripture book by a former Saint Vincent Seminary faculty member received a national award from the Catholic Press Association in 2015. The Sunday Homilies, Saint Vincent Archabbey, Cycle B, by Father Campion P. Gavaler, O.S.B., and the late Father Demetrius R. Dumm, O.S.B., received a first place book award in the category Scripture: Popular […]

Monsignor Michael Becker, adjunct professor of homiletics, has received a national Catholic Press Award for the book he edited, A Life of Daring Simplicity, by Liturgical Press. The book received a third place award in the book category Pastoral Ministry. Judges noted: “This is a very good book of daily meditations for priests. It is […]

Brother Elliott C. Maloney, O.S.B., a monk and professor of New Testament and Biblical Languages at Saint Vincent Seminary, has received an honorable mention award from The Catholic Press Association for his book, Saint Paul, Master of the Spiritual Life “in Christ.” The book received the recognition in the category Scripture: Academic Studies. It is […]

Father Edward Michael Mazich, O.S.B., a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey, has been named the twelfth Rector of Saint Vincent Seminary. A member of the Benedictine community for 21 years, he has studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, receiving the Licentiate in Sacred Scripture (S.S.L.) in 2003. Father Edward continued his studies at […]

Nine men from the Archdiocese of Atlanta, the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Erie, Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Subiaco Abbey in Arkansas and Saint Joseph Monastery in California received degrees at the 169th annual commencement of Saint Vincent Seminary, Latrobe. Most Rev. Mark L. Bartchak, Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, received an honorary doctor of divinity […]