In Memoriam
Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm.
1921-2008
Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm
The New Priest at Ordination
June 8, 1946
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REV. EAMON R. CARROLL Carroll, O. Carm., Eamon R. Rev. Eamon R. Carroll, O. Carm., 87, died Nov. 15, 2008, at Carmel at Mission Valley in Nokomis, Florida, where he was a resident since 2002. He entered the Order of Carmelites' Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary in 1935, and was ordained a priest in 1946. He then earned a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Among his assignments: faculty member of Mount Carmel High School in Chicago; Whitefriars Hall and Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; International College of Saint Albert, Rome; Loyola University at Chicago; and University of Dayton, Ohio. As a world-renowned theologian and professor in the study of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mariology), he was on the staff at the International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and authored numerous books and articles in his field [click here to see his bibliography]. Among his honors, he served as president of the Mariological Society of America and the Catholic Theological Society of America, secretary of the International Mariological Congress, a charter member of the English Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as a consultant for the interior iconography of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. |