Wagner, Sr, Mary Anthony, 1975-1978

Wagner, Sr, Mary Anthony

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-Sr. Mary Anthony Wagner Award, 2005 (Includes some early history of the Benedictine Institute of Sacred Theology - BIST, later known as the School of Theology - SOT)

--webpage for the Ezekiel and Wagner Awards, 2013

--Ezekiel and Wagner Awards - Research (2013). Excerpt:

-"Sr. Mary Anthony Wagner, OSB, was among the very first women to earn a doctorate in theology in this country, and she worked tirelessly to offer the opportunities she had been given to others. As early as 1950, according to Sister Angelo Haspert, OSB, of St. Benedict's Monastery, Collegeville, MN, she gave a paper at St. Anselm's Abbey in Manchester, NH in which she "pleaded for more theological and systematic training in Benedictine Monasteries preparing women to take on major leadership roles and for novice directors." She helped to found the Benedictine Institute of Sacred Theology (BIST), which would later become the Saint John's School of Theology Seminary. When the academic program for seminarians and the graduate program for lay theology students merged in 1974 to form the School of Theology Seminary, Sister Mary Anthony served as its first dean. With great vision, she recognized the need for women working in the Church to have sound theological education. Working with Saint John's University in its prophetic mission to offer theological education to lay people, and especially women, Sister Mary Anthony was a dynamic role model for women in leadership roles in the Church."

-Misc Correspondence and Communication c. 1970s

-Saint John's University Religious Education Planning Team: Summer Study Report 1975.

-"The Ordination Conference from the Inside", Sisters Today, February 1976.

-St. Cloud Visitor, January 25, 1979: "Benedictine Nun is named editor of sisters' journal".