OBITUARIES: Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. (1930-2015)

Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States (1998) with Georgetown University professor Diana Hayes and "Stamped with the Image of God": African Americans as God's Image in Black (2003) with Dominican Sister Jamie T. Phelps.5 6 With St. Meinrad still his home, through several academic terms in the 1990s he lectured mostly on monastic history at various West African monasteries and for many years taught at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. Davis received many awards, including the Johannes Quasten Medal for excellence in scholarship and leadership in religious studies from The Catholic University of America (2002), the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Saint Meinrad Alumni Association (2004), the Marianist Award from the University of Dayton (2007), and the Acacia Award from the Archdiocese of Louisville (2010).