Page 4 - Priorities #20 2002-October

Conversation With
Father Egon
Father Egon, 1956
JAVOR
A conversation with Fr. Egon Javor, one of the founding fathers and Prior of Woodside Priory for its first 10 years, is full of short, homey digressions—the name Egon, for instance, is the Hungarian version of Yves or Yvon, and Javor means "maple, like the tree"—a lot of humor and not a little self-effacement. He tells a little of his escape from Communist Hungary in the late 1940s before saying the full story is too long.
Since his retirement from the school in 1987, Fr. Egon continues as a full-time monk and priest, with duties in the Benedictine community, visits
to aging friends and benefactors, funerals, baptisms, marriages and service as chaplain of the Knights of Malta.
In this "Conversation With..." Fr. Egon, who holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Budapest, discusses entering the Benedictine community, leaving Hungary, and forging a new community and school in the United States.
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