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Essay Competition 2009
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English Benedictine Congregation Schools Prize 2009
The Congregation’s schools in England decided in 2009
to institute a Prize Essay competition. The Abbot
President was asked to set the title and to judge the entries.
The competition was open to any student at a Benedictine school in the
United Kingdom and the Irish Republic. Candidates were asked to write
an essay of approximately 1500 words entitled:
Is a Benedictine School likely to favour the Arts rather than the Sciences?
The essays were judged by the Abbot President and Abbot
Edmund Power of the Abbey
of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome.
A first prize of £500, a second prize of £250, and three further
prizes of £100 were offered.
The winners were:
- First prize of £500: Jack Belloli (St Benedict’s School, Ealing) This prize essay may be read HERE
- Second prize of £200: John Raphael Roberts (Downside School)
- Prizes of £100: Matthew Rudman (Ampleforth College)
- Cosima Benson-Colpi (Downside School)
- Charity Eleanor Mapletoft (Ampleforth College)
