The Saint Louis Priory School, a Roman Catholic secondary day school for boys, is located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The school was established in 1955, at the invitation of prominent St. Louis Catholics, by monks of the Benedictine Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire, England. The corresponding Priory of Saints Louis and Mary (now Saint Louis Abbey), a Benedictine monastery, was established at the same time. The Priory, which is a member of the English Benedictine Congregation, became independent of Ampleforth in 1973, and was elevated to an Abbey in 1989. Creve Coeur, derived from French for broken heart (Crève CÅ“ur), is an affluent suburb in western St. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ... A day school is an institution where children are given educational instruction only during the day and after which children return to their homes. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government  - Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area  - City  66. ... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, the Cathedral parish of the Archdiocese. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... For the college, see Benedictine College. ... Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the UK, and it is occasionally referred to as the Catholic Eton, a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont (no longer open) and Stonyhurst College (both Jesuit schools) and which was Cardinal Newmans... Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article should belong in one or more categories. ... Monastery of St. ... The English Benedictine Congregation (abbr. ... Ampleforth is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about 20 miles north of York. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Bold textTHIS IS THE PAGE THAT A.S. REALLY NEEDS!! THIS IS NOW MARKED!!! ] ps i like A.O. This article is about an abbey as a Christian monastic community. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

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Enrolling over 300 boys in grades seven through twelve, the Priory School offers a rigorous education shaped by the ancient Benedictine tradition's Christian humanism, with particular attention to Roman Catholic theology, classical and modern foreign languages, English and American literature, mathematics and the natural sciences, history, computer science, and the fine arts. It has a longstanding tradition of having the highest percentage of graduating students recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Foundation of any Roman Catholic secondary school in the Saint Louis metropolitan area, and its graduates attend highly competitive colleges throughout the United States and Canada. Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom and individualism are compatible with the practice of Christianity or intrinsic in its doctrine. ...

The school emphasizes prayer and monastic life on a daily basis. Two days of the week, usually Mondays and Wednesdays, the boys attend a prayer assembly led by the student liturgy leader who picks the hymn to be sung based on the time in the Church year. A Gospel read by either the prior of the monastery or by the headmaster follows the hymn, with a short period of reflection after. On Wednesdays, a psalm is read in addition to the Gospel reading. Every Friday, unless otherwise noted, the boys attend all-school mass. The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ...

The school has several distinctive features not found at many other high schools. Students must complete a research thesis, a work of creative writing, or a project in the visual or performing arts, as well as participate in community service, to graduate. The school is renowned for its contributions to the ancient art of calligraphy, and students may, after applying, join a guild and attain the title of "Master Calligrapher." Students also can undertake projects in the pre-Medieval art of stained glass. This article is about the thesis in academia. ... Contemporary Western Calligraphy. ... A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...

The founding headmaster was scholar and author Rev. Timothy Horner, O.S.B. Fr. Timothy was one of the founders of the school. He also founded the school's first athletic team, The Rebel Ruggers. He was succeeded by Rev. Paul Kidner, O.S.B., who arrived shortly after the founding. He was in turn succeeded by Rev. Finbarr Dowling, O.S.B. Before being elected to serve as Abbot of the Saint Louis Abbey, former Rhodes Scholar and university professor, Fr. Thomas Frerking, O.S.B. guided the school in the mid 1990s. Template:Country data The Priory Rugby Club The Priory Rugby Club (also known as Kwai Nyu and The Rebel Ruggers) is the rugby club of Saint Louis Priory School, and the oldest high school rugby team in Missouri. ...

Rev. Gregory Mohrman, O.S.B., Class of 1976, the first alumnus to join the monastery, became headmaster in 1995, and held the position for ten years. He was replaced by Rev. Michael Brunner, O.S.B., the school's former assistant headmaster. The Rev. Gregory is now the Prior of the monastery.

Dress Code

The school's dress code is fairly casual. The boys are asked to wear long pants with a belt, and a collared shirt; the outfit must match reasonably. Jeans are not allowed. For a short time, the boys were allowed to wear tennis shoes, but in 2006, the school changed its policies again, now allowing the once disallowed "Birkenstock clogs". On days of all-school mass and guest speaker days, the students are required to wear a coat and tie. Most of them wear a blue blazer and khaki pants, with a white or blue oxford (cloth) button-down. Some students choose to wear two-piece suits, which are acceptable. On these formal days, cargo pants are extremely discouraged, and only black or brown tie-up shoes are allowed. Some students and faculty choose to wear the formal dress code every day, which is perfectly acceptable. Failure to follow the dress code results in a demerit, repeated demerit offenses result in a work-detail on Saturday. So, in general, you will find a Priory student in dress code if you were to visit the campus. An athletic shoe is a generic name for a shoe designed for sporting activities. ... Oxford refers to a type of weave employed to make the fabric in oxford shirts. ...

Fr. Michael expressed in an All-School Assembly his reasons for the dress code. He stated that if the dress code were changed to be formal every day, the students would not be relaxed, and the rest of the school would be tense, creating a difficult environment to work in. He also said that if the dress code was too casual, the students would be too relaxed, also creating a difficult environment to work in.

Sports and Mascot

The school's sports mascot is the Rebels. "The Rebels" comes from the name of the school's first athletic team, The Rebel Ruggers. A version of the Confederate Johnny Rebel figure was featured in the school's sports iconography, and a Confederate flag was flown outside the school for a short time, until it was taken down due to controversy surrounding the symbolic meaning of the flag. (During the U. S. Civil War, Missouri had a pro-Union government, Saint Louis was a predominantly Union city, and most Roman Catholics in Missouri during the Civil War were pro-Union.) The jersey colors are red, white, and blue. The varsity tennis team, coached by Fr. Ralph Wright, O.S.B. since 1971, is called "The Kestrels", but the official name of the team is still the Rebels. In late 2006, it was rumoured that the mascot was going to be changed to either "The Ravens" or "The Kestrels", due to more adversity to the name "Rebels". There is also speculation that the change will occur after the Class of 2008 graduates. One option is to change the mascot to a rebel of the American Revolution, such as Paul Revere, so that the school can maintain the name without it causing controversy. Template:Country data The Priory Rugby Club The Priory Rugby Club (also known as Kwai Nyu and The Rebel Ruggers) is the rugby club of Saint Louis Priory School, and the oldest high school rugby team in Missouri. ... Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia (May 29, 1861–April 2, 1865) Danville, Virginia (from April 3, 1865) Language(s) English (de facto) Religion... Johnny Rebel or Johnny Reb was the slang term for any Confederate soldier, or the Confederate army as a whole, during the American Civil War. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Official language(s) English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Largest metro area St Louis[1] Area  Ranked 21st  - Total 69,709 sq mi (180,693 km²)  - Width 240 miles (385 km)  - Length 300 miles (480 km)  - % water 1. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: , Country State County Independent City Government  - Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area  - City  66. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen... For the song by the Beastie Boys, see Paul Revere (song). ...

Priory is a member of the suburban ABC League. Other members include John Burroughs School, Lutheran North High School, Lutheran South High School, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS), Principia High School, and Westminster Christian Academy. MICDS and John Burroughs have traditionally been two of the school's biggest rivals. Priory students are required to participate in a sport every season. In the fall, the school offers cross country, football, and soccer. In the winter, the school offers basketball, rugby, ice hockey, and wrestling. Students may choose to participate in the winter musical in order to fill their sports requirement. The rugby and ice hockey teams are club teams that are not sponsored by the school or state, and don't fill the sports requirement. In addition to practicing with the team, members of the rugby or ice hockey team are required to lift weights three days of the week in order to fill their sports requirement. In the spring, the school offers golf, track and field, tennis, and baseball. (Although the school has racquetball and squash facilities, it does not field teams in these sports, nor does it have a swimming and diving team, as it once did.) Founded in 1923, John Burroughs School (JBS) is a private, non-sectarian preparatory school with nearly 600 students in grades 7-12. ... This article should belong in one or more categories. ... Mary Institute & St. ... The Principia is a religion-based preschool, gradeschool, boarding highschool, and college. ... Westminster Christian Academy is an independent co-educational 7-12 grade secondary school located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, United States. ...

In the winter of 2004, the hockey Rebels received a bid to play in the Wickenheiser Cup, a memorial tournament named for the late St. Louis Blues Center Doug Wickenheiser. During their playoff run, they defeated Francis Howell, the highest ranked small school hockey team in Missouri, to advance to the final game against Fox High School. Priory won the championship game, played at the Scottrade Center (formerly Savvis Center and home to the St. Louis Blues), giving the school its first state sports title since 1973. In the fall of 2005, the Priory varsity soccer team became the first in this sport in Missouri's high school sports history, and the first since state titles were officially sanctioned by the Missouri State High School Athletics Association, to compete for a full season with no losses or ties. Led by All-American Jimmy Holmes, who scored 43 goals en-route to the best metro-player award, the soccer Rebels ended the season with a perfect 26-0-0 record, winning the state Class 2 title. The St. ... Scottrade Center Scottrade Center (formerly Kiel Center and Savvis Center) is an arena located in downtown St. ... All-American, a Broadway musical with book by Mel Brooks, music by Charles Strouse, and lyrics by Lee Adams, opened in New York on March 19, 1962, and played 80 performances. ...

On February 26, 2007, the hockey Rebels won the Wickenheiser Cup for the second time, defeating Whitfield High School 4-3, after a third period comeback.

Also in the spring of 2007, the Priory golf team won its first state title, winning by 27 shots. After day one of the tournament, eventual runner-up Pembroke Hill of Kansas City was only behind by three strokes, however the Rebels broke away in the second round, and the final team score was 583. The Pembroke Hill School (commonly known simply as Pembroke Hill) is a nonsectarian, coeducational, private preparatory school in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The school is located on two campuses, the Ward Parkway Campus and the Wornall Campus, both in Kansas Citys Sunset Hill neighborhood near the Country Club Plaza. ...

The Abbey Church

One of the school's major distinctions is the award-winning Abbey Church (1962), also known as the Church of St. Mary and St. Louis and the Priory Chapel. It was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, with the famous Italian architect and engineer Pier Luigi Nervi serving as consultant. The Abbey Church was an important landmark and name-making project for HOK, now the world's largest architectural practice (according to the 2006 edition of the BD World Architecture 200). The church's circular facade consists of three tiers of whitewashed, thin-poured concrete parabolic arches, the top one forming a bell-tower; the arches appear to float upwards from their grassy base. They are faced with dark insulated-fiberglass polyester window walls which create a meditative translucency when viewed from within. The church also contains a 14th century sculpture of the Madonna and Christ child, a 17th century holy font in the Della Robbia style, and more modern sacred art by artists from the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and France. Gyo Obata (born 1923) is a significant American architect. ... HOK is a major international architectural practice. ... Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. ...

On the grounds outside the church sit life-size sculptures of the abbey's patron saints, Saint Benedict, by Lithuanian-born artist Wiktor Szostalo, and the Holy Blessed Virgin Mother Mary, Our Lady of Grace, by American Philip Howie. The Abbey Church also serves as the home church for the Saint Louis Archdiocese parish of Saint Anselm's. This article is about Saint Benedict of Nursia, for other uses of the name Benedict see Benedict (disambiguation) Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. ... Saint Benedict, Welded Stainless Steel (1993) at the Saint Louis Abbey Wiktor Szostalo is a Polish-American sculptor who currently resides in the United States. ... The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, the Cathedral parish of the Archdiocese. ...

Mock Trial

On April 1, 2007, Priory's mock trial team made school history by becoming state champions. Prior to that year, the team had never advanced past the final four. Having moved onto the national competition, Priory placed fourth in the nation.

Literary Highlight

The history of the monastery and school was chronicled by founding monk and original headmaster Fr. Timothy Horner, O.S.B. in his In Good Soil: The Founding of the Saint Louis Priory School 1954-1973 (2001). In this historical and often jovial work, written in his characteristically brilliant and dry style, Fr. Horner described the initial contact with the interested St. Louis Catholic laymen, and brought readers through the difficult but in his mind ultimately rewarding process of founding a new school in the English Benedictine Congregation.

Tutoria

In recent years Priory has started a Tutoria program in which students gather a few times a week to pray. A special form of prayer, lectio divina, is used. In lectio a gospel passage is read through once, and then a second time with pauses imbetween each line. These pauses are used to reflect on how the line applies to the participant's own life. Students involved with Tutoria are each members of a specific community which prays a few times a week. Also the members of Tutoria (called tutors) meet with Junior Schoolers (7th and 8th Graders) twice a week to pray lectio with a small group of kids. So far in its first few years Tutoria has been a huge success, as the Tutors learn to love prayer and self-reflection, and develop relationships with the younger students. Lectio Divina is Latin for “spiritual reading” and represents an early Roman Catholic monastic technique of prayer that continues in practice though less widely, intended to achieve communion with God as well as providing special spiritual insights and peace from that experience. ...

Notable alumni

(Alumni are noted by their year of graduation.)

• Kevin Kline (1965), Academy Award-winning actor
• Thomas Schlafly (1966), founder of Saint Louis Brewery (creators of Schlafly beer) and attorney
• Eddy L. Harris (1974), author (books include Mississippi Solo, Native Stranger, South of Haunted Dreams, and Still Life in Harlem)
• Emmett McAuliffe (1976), KMOX radio host and entertainment attorney
• Andrew Schlafly (1978), Attorney, son of conservative author and activist Phyllis Schlafly, and co-founder of Conservapedia
• Dave Holmes (1989), MTV VJ and reality TV show host
• Tim Convy (1998), keyboardist for rock group Ludo
• Benjamin R. Noll (2000), NFL Offensive Lineman, Detroit Lions practice squad; had stints with the St. Louis Rams and the Dallas Cowboys; currently the only alumnus to play a professional sport

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Sports Titles

Missouri State High School Athletic Association (MSHSAA) Titles:

• 1973 Football
• 1999 Academic Competition
• 2004 Cross Country
• 2005 Soccer (The first team in MSHSAA history to go 26-0-0 Undeafeated)
• 2007 Golf ( 2nd lowest 36-hole Total (583) for par 71-hole course in MSHSAA history)

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• 2004
• 2007

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• Golf, 2007, Michael Kleffner

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All-American Athletes

All-American:

• Bill Daake, Basketball, 1969 (later attended Princeton University)
• Jimmy Holmes, Soccer, 2006 (currently attending Saint Louis University)

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External links

• Saint Louis Abbey and Priory School official site
• Saint Louis Abbey Website

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