Meet Father Cyprian Davis, OSB.
The National Black Catholic Congress has described him as the "single most important leader in historical studies of the African-American Catholic Church in the United States."
The Washington, D.C., native and prolific writer is a graduate of Saint Meinrad College, The Catholic University of America and University of Louvain. He has been a Benedictine monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey since 1951.
He teaches at the Saint Meinrad seminary. He also has taught at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans, according to his Saint Meinrad faculty profile.
He has been a tremendous inspiration to historians as well as black American Catholics and seminarians.
(Image via Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology)
Some works written or co-authored by Father Davis (all Amazon links):
Henriette Delille: Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor
Stamped with the Image of God: African Americans as God's Image in Black
Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States
The History of Black Catholics in the United States
To Prefer Nothing to Christ
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