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Monk to receive Marianist Award
Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB, a Benedictine monk at Saint Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, IN, will be awarded the Marianist Award by the University of Dayton on February 1.
The Marianist Award, given annually to a Roman Catholic who has contributed to intellectual life in some way, will be awarded to Fr. Cyprian for his scholarly work and teachings on the history of black American Catholics. Fr. Cyprian will also speak at the event, which is part of the university’s Marianist Heritage Celebration.
A professor of Church history at Saint Meinrad School of Theology, Fr. Cyprian is also an author, speaker and archivist.
This is not the first award for Fr. Cyprian. He received the John Gilmary Shea Award from the American Catholic Historical Association for his book, The History of Black Catholics in the United States.
In 2002, he was awarded the Johannes Quasten Medal for excellence in scholarship and leadership in religious studies from The Catholic University of America. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Saint Meinrad Alumni Association.
Other books authored by Fr. Cyprian include The Church: A Living Heritage; Stamped with the Image of God: African Americans as God’s Image in Black, which he co-edited with Jamie Phelps, OP; Henriette Delille: Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor; and a book of historical essays about Saint Meinrad, To Prefer Nothing to Christ.
Fr. Cyprian graduated from Saint Meinrad College, earned an STL from The Catholic University of America, and a licentiate and doctorate in historical sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He received honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 2001, the Catholic Theological Union in 2002, St. Vincent’s College in 2003, and The Catholic University of America in 2006. He has been a monk of Saint Meinrad since 1951.
He serves as archivist for Saint Meinrad Archabbey and for the Swiss-American Benedictine Congregation. He also is the archivist for the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, of which he was a founding member in 1968.
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