order disulfiram In 1957, when Reginald Foster was sixteen years of age and a student at the Carmelite Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire, he was an avid reader of Latinitas, the tantum-Latine magazine produced in the halls of the Vatican. He had learned of the existence of this magazine from his Latin teacher, Conrad Fliess, who had […]
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Carolus Egger on Peterborough
18-Mar-21Ads – in Latin!
18-Feb-21http://cjni.com/onepage/blog/?Tag=CBS 2 I took an overnight trip to Ithaca, NY to get at some of the books there – NYC seems to be shut down for independent research. I was reading through as much as I could of Latinitas magazine, a Latin-only periodical published by the Vatican beginning in 1953 until Benedict XVI shut it down. Among […]
The Classics, In Brief
10-Feb-21“Some people here [at the American Academy in Rome] are snobbish about this mess but it belongs to anyone who can dig it.” – Ralph Ellison
[Scriptio haec aureo est laudis insigni honestata in Certamine Vaticano XIII] “Octo tantummodo praeterierunt dies – dumtaxat hebdomas una – longa ea quidem; attamen haec hebdomas orbis nostri praeclarissima fuit a condita rerum natura, quoniam per hos dies quae contigerunt mundum amplificaverunt in immensum.” Ita elate et ample locutus Foederatarum Civitatum Americae Septentrionalis Praeses, Richardus […]
[From Jan. 10, 1971. By Louis B. Fleming, who wrote a column called “From Cicero’s View.”] Latinist Chronicles Lunar Adventure By Louis B. Fleming ROME – All systems are “A-OK” and the navicula speculatoria is on the moon. If that’s Greek to you, it’s Latin to the Rev. Reginald Thomas Foster, and there’s nothing dead […]
The Latin That Got Left On the Moon
30-Jan-21In a gesture of international goodwill, the Apollo XI mission requested messages from every country, which would be placed in a capsule and left on the moon. Paul VI had the Vatican message written in Latin. It read: Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra! quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super […]
Telling Reginaldus’s Whole Story
31-Dec-20The media attention which Fr. Reginald Foster has received in the past week since his death has been mostly exhilarating but sometimes saddening. The exhilarating part is seeing how many lives he touched, and how people remain interested in him. The sad part is seeing how the media outlets with the widest reach (such as […]
Fr. Reginald Foster, O.C.D., 1939-2020
31-Dec-20Reginald Foster in his classroom in 2001. Te amamus, dulcis magister.
Reginaldus and Leo Magnus, for Christmas
26-Dec-20Reginaldus passed away just after midnight on Christmas morning. Some rather sensitive and intelligent tweeter sent this link to me, of Reginaldus reading the first Christmas sermon of his favorite author, Leo Magnus: http://frcoulter.com/leo/tractati/063%20Tractatus%20XXI.3.mp3 Here is the text: Agamus ergo, dilectissimi, gratias Deo Patri, per Filium eius in Spiritu Sancto, qui propter multam caritatem suam, […]
I own the only copy of this book that I’ve ever seen come for sale online. This is the high school textbook that Reginald Foster used while in the Carmelite Seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire. It is the best, most thorough anthology of Latin literature I’ve ever seen, and thanks to the diligence of my […]