Fr. Werner Papeians de Morchoven, OSB, Benedictine missionary in China, artist, US Air Force Chaplain, monastery cellarer, and Festival Chairman, was born in 1914 and died in 2008 at the age of 94.

A Biographical Interview in 1998 offers a brief glimpse of Fr. Werner's life before he was sent to China.

Two previously-unpublished autobiographical essays describe:

1. Monastic and Missionary Life in SiShan, China, 1942-1944

2. Transfer of the Monastic Community to Chengdu in 1944; arrest, trial, and exile in 1954.

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