Thimmesh, Hilary

Hilary Donald Thimmesh, OSB, is a native Minnesotan who became a monk of Saint John s Abbey in 1947. He was ordained priest in 1954, gained a doctorate in English from Cornell University in 1963, and taught courses in Chaucer and Shakespeare intermittently with administrative appointments until 2009. He currently heads the Benedictine Institute of Saint John s University.