Bernard Smith (abbot)
Dom Bernard Smith, O.S.B. | |
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| Titular Abbot of Polirone | |
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| Other post(s) | Pro-Rector of the American College, Rome (1859–1860) Vice-Rector of the Irish College, Rome (1850–1855) |
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| Ordination | 21 September 1839 |
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| Born | 12 September 1812 County Cavan, Ireland |
| Died | 11 December 1892 (aged 80) Rome, Italy |
| Buried | Campo Verano, Rome, Italy |
Dom Bernard Smith, O.S.B. (12 September 1812 – 11 December 1892) was an Irish
Life
Bernard Smith was born in County Cavan, Ireland on 12 September 1812.[1] At the age of 22, he entered the Irish College in Rome, on 10 October 1834. He was ordained a secular priest on 21 September 1839, in Rome, for his home diocese of Kilmore. He won his Ph.D. in 1840 and S.T.D. with distinction. He left the Irish College on 25 October 1843.[1]
Feeling a call to religious life, Smith made his profession as a Benedictine monk of
From 1858 to 1878, he served as the rector of College of Sant'Anselmo following its restoration.[3]
He was readmitted to the monastic life in 1857 at St. Paul Outside the Walls, while residing at San Callisto in Trastevere. Eventually he became Roman procurator for the English and American Benedictine congregations, and Roman agent for at least 22 American dioceses and several American religious communities.[2] It was in this semi-diplomatic capacity that Father Smith served as a guide to famous English-speaking visitors, including the future Edward VII of England, U.S. President Franklin Pierce, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.[2][4]
One of his briefest assignments was as pro-rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. The college was founded on 7 December 1859, and Father Smith served in the place of Father William G. McCloskey, until 3 March 1860.[2][4]
Smith retired from his professorship at the Urban College in 1880. He was later made titular abbot of Polirone by Pope Leo XIII in late 1884 or early 1885.[5] Dom Bernard Smith died on 11 December 1892 of pneumonia at San Callisto and was buried in the Campo Verano.[2][6]
Notes and references
- References
- ^ a b c McNamara 1956, p. 701.
- ^ a b c d e McNamara 1956, p. 702.
- ^ Cwiekowski, Frederick (1971). The English bishops and the first Vatican Council. Louvain: University Publications of Louvain. p. 114.
Also serving as theologian in Rome was Bernard Smith, O. S. B. Smith (1817-1892) was born in Ireland, studied at the Irish College in Rome, and was professed at Monte Cassino in 1847. He was for a long time professor of Hebrew at the College of Propaganda and, from 1858 to 1878, rector of the restored San Anselmo. At Rome he served as agent of the English-Irish bishops. During the council he was theologian for Cardinal Pitra. I have not found mention of him in any of Ullathorne's letters. On Smith, see Conzemrtus, p. 61, note 40.
- ^ a b McNamara 1956, p. 89.
- ^ McNamara 1956, p. 292.
- ^ McNamara 1956, p. 316.
- Works cited
- McNamara, Robert F. (1956), The American College in Rome (1855–1955), Rochester, New York: The Christopher Press, LCCN 56-7591
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