THE
MONKS
of
VALYERMO
(Text
from the SS. Patriarchae Benedicti Familiae Confoederatae Catalogus
Monasteriorum, O.S.B. and the Congregatio Annuntiationis Ordinis
Sancti Benedicti)
Canonical erection in Xishan, China 1929. Canonical transfer to Chengtu, China in 1947; to Valyermo, California in 1956. Elevated to Conventual Priory in 1965; to Abbey in 1992.
Solemnly-Professed Monks:
|
|
born |
professed |
ordained |
|
07 04 1962 |
25 03
2000 |
23 07 2005 |
|
| CARLOS LOPEZ, Prior |
14 02 1966 |
25 03 1998 |
13 07 2002 |
| JOSEPH BRENNAN, Sub-Prior |
26 10 1948 |
19 03 1998 |
25 05 1974 |
|
DOMINIC GUILLEN |
24 08 1944 |
05 08 1967 |
|
|
BENEDICT DULL |
25 05 1951 |
01 11 1976 |
|
|
29 05 1953 |
06 08 1982 |
11 07 1986 |
|
|
MARTIN (de Porres) YSLAS |
07 05 1955 |
06 08 1983 |
28 05 1987 |
| ISAAC KALINA |
01 12 1959 |
05 01 1986 |
21 10 1989 |
| MATTHEW RIOS | 19 05 1963 | 31 11 2001 | 23 07 2005 |
| PATRICK SHERIDAN |
14 01 1949 |
06 05 2005 |
16 07 2011 |
|
JOHN MARK MATTHEWS |
26 04 1963 |
06 05 2005 |
|
| FRANCOIS KABILISA |
23 06 1975 |
15 12 2007 |
07 09 2016 |
| CASSIAN DiROCCO |
12 06 1975 |
17 05 2009 |
20 07 2013 |
| ANGELUS ECHEVERRY |
31 08 1971 |
17 05 2009 |
24 06 2017 |
| PAUL ORTEGA |
18 04 1968 |
25 03 2019 |
|
| JOHN BAPTIST SANTA ANA |
12 06 1975 |
13 01 2019 |
Monks in Triennial Vows, Novices,
Postulants:
VALYERMO NECROLOGY
|
born |
professed |
ordained |
|
|
JEHAN Jolliet, monk of Solesmes, Founding Prior of Xishan ('30-33), our first priory in China. (died Dec. 23, 1937) |
18 02 1870 |
06 29 1897 |
06 10 1900 |
|
GABRIEL Roux, Second Prior of Xishan ('35-36). (died Dec. 23, 1936) |
17 11 1900 |
11 07 1923 |
|
|
RAPHAEL Vinciarelli,
Third Prior of Xishan, Founding Prior of Valyermo
(died Nov. 14, 1972) |
11
01 1897 |
01
11 1916 |
14
01 1924 |
|
EMILE Butruille (transf. vows to Collegeville '52; died 1965 in Japan) |
1888 |
1907 |
20
09 1919 |
|
DOMINIC VanRolleghem
(Xishan '30-'34; Africa/Congo '34-'39; India '51-'90; died
Jan 22, 1995) |
29 05 1904 |
15 01 1924 |
10
08 1929 |
| HILDEBRAND Marga | |||
|
PAUL Ou Wu K’I-In (died Jan. 10, 1960, imprisoned in China) |
06 01 1915 |
10 07 1938 |
04 01 1950 |
|
GABRIEL Muir
(died March 4, 1969) |
23
02 1946 |
05
08 1969 |
|
|
BERNARD Ambrose
(died June 8, 1975) |
10 03 1928 |
03
06 1975 |
|
|
ALBERIC Deloring (died December 25,1981) |
07 12 1911 |
01 02 1933 |
25 06 1938 |
|
THADDEUS Yang An Djian (died August 15, 1982) |
15 05 1905 |
05 10 1928 |
31 071932 |
|
WILFRID Weitz (died Oct. 27, 1991) |
06 04 1912 |
25 01 1931 |
25 07 1936 |
|
FELIX Tang (died April 14, 1994) |
08 10 1920 |
11 07 1953 |
01 07 1957 |
|
MOLAISE Meehan (died Aug. 6, 1994) |
26 09 1914 |
1510 1964 |
23 06 1940 |
|
ANSELM Ferris (died Oct. 17, 1994) |
13 11 1955 |
06 08 1982 |
11 07 1986 |
|
GAETAN Loriers
(died Aug. 27, 1996) |
11
01 1915 |
15
01 1935 |
21
09 1940 |
|
14
03 1912 |
15
01 1930 |
25
07 1936 |
|
|
WERNER
PAPEIANS de MORCHOVEN
(died Sept. 30, 2008) |
28 01 1914 |
01 02 1933 |
25 06 1938 |
|
ELEUTHERIUS
WINANCE
(died Aug.15, 2009) |
10 07 1909 |
15 01 1929 |
28 07 1935 |
|
JOHN BOSCO Stoner
(died Feb.1, 2014) |
12 04 1943 |
05 08 1967 |
10 07 1976 |
|
GREGORY Elmer
(died Aug.2, 2016) |
02 11 1948 |
11 07 1970 |
10 07 1976 |
| PETER ZHOU BANG-JIU (died May 9, 2022) |
27 08 1926 |
15 10 1950 |
|
|
JOHN Borgerding
(died May 15, 2022) |
05 07 1935 |
14 09 1962 |
06 08 1966 |
|
SIMON O'Donnell
(died Sept.28, 2023) |
17 07 1941 |
11 09 1965 |
14 09 1968 |
| JOSEPH IARROBINO (died Mar.27, 2023) |
01 12 1931 |
01 11 1979 |
|
|
AELRED
NIESPOLO
(died Oct.12, 2023) |
05 02 1944 |
01 11 2001 |
23 07 2005 |
|
07 07 1948 |
11 07 1970 |
10 07 1976 |
|
|
PHILIP EDWARDS (died Aug.14, 2024) |
19 01 1929 |
11 07 1962 |
12 08 1967 |
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