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Priory Benedictine Monks

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 Monk Martin

Name: Fr. Martin Mager

Date of Birth: August, 1934

Place of Birth: Newark, NJ

Date of Profession: 1959

Date of Ordination: 1963

Education: B.A. St. Anselm College, M.A. Columbia University

Family: Two sisters

Joined the Priory monastic community: August 1, 1975

Brief history of work with the Priory:

  • Reigning Superior of Monastic Community
  • Director of College Counseling- 25 years
  • Chaplain- 31 years
  • Teacher (Social Justice, Ethics, Art, Photography)- 31 years
  • Director of Alumni Affairs- 6 years
  • Board of Trustees as a Director
  • Dorm Housemaster- 14 years
  • Monastic sub-prior or Superior- 30 years
 Monk Egon

Name: Fr. Egon Javor

Date of Birth: October, 1916

Date of Death: March 2, 2008

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Profession: 1937

Date of Ordination: 1941

Education: Doctor in Sacred Theology

Family: 3 sisters, 1 brother

Founded the Priory monastic community: 1956, confreres arrived in 1957

Brief history of work with the Priory:

  • Selected, bought and named the Priory location
  • Prior for 10 years
  • Teacher- 33 years
  • Providing for the necessary buildings and the needs of school and community
  • Establishing communication with parents and friends and local clery
  • Recruiting friends and benefactors
 Monk Pius

Name: Fr. Pius Horvath

Date of Birth: January, 1930

Place of Birth: Izsa, Slovakia (now Hungary)

Date of Profession: 1950

Date of Ordination: 1953

Education: St. Gerald College in Pannonhalma, Hungary, philosophy and theology. University of Fribourg, Switzerland, German and French literature, Medieval History. Stanford University, M.A. in German literature.

Joined the Priory monastic community: 1960

Brief history of work with the Priory:

  • Taught German- 35 years
  • Taught Latin- 10 years
  • Weekend assistance at various parishes of the Peninsula- 45 years
  • 1974: Prior administrator at Woodside Priory
Monk Edward

Name: Br. Edward Englund

Place of Birth: New Haven, CT

Date of Profession: 1963

Education: B.A. Saint Anselm College, M. Ed. Duquesne University, Ed. D University of San Francisco

Family: One sister, one niece, two nephews, one great-niece, one great-nephew

Joined the Priory monastic community: 1988

Brief History of work with the Priory:

  • 1988-1990: Director of the Boarding Program
  • 1988-2002: Taught
  • 1990-1994: Academic Dean
  • 1995-Present: Director of Guidance and Counseling




 Monk Maurus

Name: Fr. Maurus Nemeth OSB

Date of Birth: December, 1937

Place of Birth: Hahot, Hungary

Date of Profession: 1966

Date of Ordination: 1972

Education: B.A. St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
M.di. St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park, CA

Family: Immediate Family: One sister, two nephews and their families- live in Hungary and a large extended family- all live in Hungary.

Joined the Priory monastic community: August 1963

Brief history of work with the Priory:

  • 1963-68: College work and Novitiate in St. John's Abbey and University
  • 1968-69: Teaching in the Priory full time
  • 1969-72: Theology studies in St. Patrick Seminary
  • 1972: Ordained to the Priesthood
  • 1968-75: Housemaster in the Junior Dormitory
  • 1972-2004: Full time Biology teacher; 2004- present part time AP Biology teacher
  • 1975-2006: Head of the Science Department
  • 1971-86: Treasurer, Business Manager, Foodservice Manager, Maintenance Director
  • 1980-2000: School Bus Driver
  • 1994-Present: Pastor of the Hungarian Catholic Mission