Newsletter for alumni of The Abbey School,
Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas,
22 of October 2016 No. 781
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Dear Friends,
From Glen Evelyn
A Xmas song with guitar accompaniment.
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Another article on Venezuela by Julio Cesar
Arreaza
Julio Cesar you should give me a translated
version for the oldboys.
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To mailto:kertesz11@yahoo.com
Oct 19
at 5:33 PM
Dear
Ladislao,
I don’t know if you
like this for the Circulars, but in 1989 I visited the D-Day memorials on the
landing beaches in Normandy. Recently I scanned my color/negative pictures I
made then and put them in an album on www.Flickr.com
. And under each picture I wrote some explanatory text in English, where it is
and what it is all about. Maybe you like it for yourself and maybe you want to
share the link in the Circulars.
There were a lot of American and British blokes who died out
there for the good cause and are buried in honourable cemeteries in a landscape
beauty hardly seen elsewhere. They are worth visiting and that is what I did in
1989.
Here is the link to the album: https://flic.kr/s/aHskJuNKRC
Albums on Flickr are best viewed in Chrome when scrolling down
each picture to read the text below it.
There is nothing commercial in the pictures, they are not to sell
and hardly worth buying. It is only a sort of personal blog in pictures.
Hope you like it,
Much greetings
Jan Koenraadt
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mailto:idmitch@anguillanet.com
Nov 5 at
10:56 PM
Hello, Ladislao,
Ron Ferreira has discovered more about the founding Abbot of Mt
St Benedict.
This is what he has learned:
Mayeul de Caigny was born in Inshigen of Flanders, Belgium on May
29th 1862. He was ordained in the Redemptorist Order in 1887. But joined
the Benedictine Monastery of Maredsous, Belgium, out of preference for a more
contemplative life. However, when Pope Leo XIII issued a call for the
rehabilitation of the Benedictine Abbeys of Brazil, he responded and eventually
became the Abbot of St. Sebastian Abbey in Bahia in 1907.
Abbot Mayeul resigned his office in 1915 to found the Mt. St.
Benedict Monastery in Tunapuna, Trinidad, the same year. In 1923 he
resigned as convential prior, and retired to Saint Leo the following year.
"The French Abbot arrived yesterday", wrote Benedict
Roth on May 11, 1924, getting his nationality mixed up. De Caigny took up
residence at the Kuhne Farm and said mass for farmer brothers Leo Fuchbucchler
and Paul Bangart, relieving Roth who had gone out three times a week by buggy
to do so.
Abbott Mayeul kept largely to himself at the Abbey Hermitage,
writing manuscripts in philosophy and the lives of the saints, and also
conducting retreats.
He joined the Saint Leo community formally on October 16, 1935,
and died on April 24th 1939, the same day as pioneer Brother Thomas Napiecek.
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18
October 02:40
The sound of silence. An Invisible Tribe –
Thank you for seeking, Cheers Glen.
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14
October 05:50
Forgot it
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14
October 03:12
Sir George why the silence?
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10
October 04:39
Sir George, a few had the exact same dream.
Sir Arthur Knaggs, Sir Nigel Boos, Sir Ladislao Kertesz, Sir David Decastro, Sir Jon Golding, ID Mitch Sir Don, the writers of the knights,
many others, the real silent knights,
Sir Kazim, myself,
No one ever asked any of us, to do what we
do, did you know that, we all had a dream, and we knew what to do,
Seriously, no one ever talked about it
before, until you asked, the past, present & future my brother, the
dreamer, read the story again, it was written many moons ago.
Sir Trevor Evelyn, he is a great dreamer also & Sir
Phil.
They always pray for our Collective Peace.
The First Circle.
Cheers Glen.
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8
October 01:59
Keep on dreaming Sir George, that's what
start me writing a few years ago, but ah eh getting no more dreams,
Cheers Glen.
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7
October 18:08
...."dream"...
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7
October 15:33
AB/MSB - Do you ever dream about the Mount
in the past, present or future?
Last night had one set sometime in the
future about some kind of celebration...could not recognize anyone.
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NOW A REPRINT OF AN
ARTICLE from 2003
Don wrote:
I read with much amusement and enjoyment your memories of Fr
Benedict in Ladislao's circular No 13. I visited Mount last April when I was in
Trinidad for a conference and took the photographs of Fr Augustine, Fr
Cuthbert, and Fr Benedict that now appear on Tony's web site.
It was then that I met and photographed Fr Augustine, who has
unfortunately lost his sight. That is the colour photo that is on the web site.
He was quite active and showed me around despite his handicap. We had a drink
and something to eat in the old familiar cafeteria at the Abbey. I was
interested to learn from him that he still has all the Abbey School records of
all the years that the school was open. We can get to copy, if we can ever
organise the expedition of arranging to take a photocopier to the Abbey, all
the records of all the forms for our web pages.
Fr. Cuthbert was still working in the co-op he founded over 40
years ago, and he willingly allowed himself to be prised out from behind his
desk to have the photos that you have seen taken. He was obviously hale and
hearty if a bit thin.
Fr. Benedict was in his room when Fr Augustine showed me there.
He would not allow me in, but came out to chat. You can imagine what a state
his room must be in with all the bits of equipment lying around. He proudly
brought out an amplifier that he had just built from scratch. It is visible in
the photo, as he wanted to demonstrate that it was nearly loud enough to be
heard down at the now abandoned playing field. He appeared in quite good
health, if a bit frail. He assured me that he still has all of the hundreds of
class photos that he took all those years ago as the official school photographer.
My hope is that, if we can ever take a scanner up to the Abbey, before he
passes away and someone cleans out his room for the last time, we will one day
soon copy all the photos and put them up on the web.
I hope that Fr. John reads this to him or prints and gives him
your memoirs of him, to read
Don
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Hi Ladislao,
Many thanks for the
circular. At a cocktail party last night, I met a Mrs Shoul who told me that
her husband and two other brothers were at Mount during the 1940s and 1950s.
She says two of them (I cannot remember the names) are still living in Antigua,
but one has died. She gave me her email address and I have sent her the URL to
the Abbey School website. She has promised to make her husband, whom I did not
meet, sit down and look at it. In case you would like to contact her, she is
Mrs Gene Shoul at gene@candw.ag
All the best,
Don
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According to the list the following Oldboy
are not with us anymore.
The first number is the would graduate in
Form V
49
Nacimiento Martin
65
Narraine David
58
Nascimiento Martin
49
Nassief Michel (sic)
68
Ng-Hem Errol
58
Nunez Simon
75
Odderson Moses
60 Pampellone
David
49
Paulic
Terence
51
Pecquet Jean Claude
49
Phillips Colin
Piew
John
45
Prada
Geoffrey
49
Prada Charles
?
Prypchan George
Prypchan Roman
67
Pugh
John Paul
Please check the list, there might be a
living one and I made a mistake.
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EDITED by Ladislao Kertesz, kertesz11@yahoo.com,
if you would like to be in the circular’s mailing list or any old boy that you
would like to include.
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Photos:
15LK5602FBMDV,
Maurice de Verteuil
14LK2568FBEFAWFE,
Elias Farcheg and wife
14LK3337FBRGA,
Randal Galt
15LK5410FBJHA,
Joseph Habib
Joseph Habib has a comment on photo #15LK5410FBJHA in Circular No 781:
ReplyDeleteLove the work you guys are doing. Always look forward to an Abbey School Circular. One little correction, if you mind, that picture of me, is not ME! I see the resemblance. He's a good friend of mind from Venezuela. Please continue to keep up the wonderful work that you doing. I have learned a lot about the school and you guys. I had a blast in my days and I thought that nothing could have compared to the things that I had experienced. Look at how the Mount was developed in the days gone by. It’s like a dream. I was born in 1961 and I feel sometimes that I have been at the Mount from the time I was born. May God keep His blessing on you all, all the time. Thanks
@Ladislao, you added the link to my 1989 pictures of the D-Day memorials in Normandy, thanks man! Love your work! There are a lot of cemeteries out here in Europe stacked with a lot of young British, American and Canadian blokes who fell for the good cause. They are worthy to have a look at. A cemetery with 5000 soldier graves is a junior one. Thanks for adding!
ReplyDeleteJan Koenraadt