By Fr. Benet Caffrey, OSB, St. Mary's Abbey Archivist
There is no pretense to originality or scholarship. Information has been culled from the work of men such as Fathers Hilary Stephan, OSB, Malachy McPadden, OSB, Abbots Brian Clarke, OSB, Giles Hayes, OSB, and others, mostly anonymous, who have plowed these fields before. Opinions expressed and errors of fact or of redaction are the responsibility of the present author alone.