LATROBE, Pa. — Benedictine Brother James Raber, a seminarian from Belmont Abbey, is studying second theology at St. Vincent Seminary this academic year.
Pictured are (from left): Benedictine Father Patrick Cronauer, academic dean; Benedictine Father Boniface Hicks, director of spiritual formation; Benedictine Father Edward Mazich, rector; Brother James; Benedictine Father John Mary Tompkins, vice rector; Dr. Lawrence Sutton, director of pre-theologian formation; and Benedictine Father Cyprian Constantine, director of liturgical formation.
Brother James is the son of Edward B. and Sue M. Raber of Fleming Island, Fla. He is a 2002 graduate of Gahanna Lincoln High School in Gahanna, Ohio.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in marine transportation operations from Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, in 2006. He has done post-graduate studies at Belmont Abbey College, and he has studied at St. Meinard Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana.
— Kim Metzgar