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Reginald "Reggie" Foster O.C.D. (born Tuesday, November 14, 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He formerly worked in the "Latin Letters" section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican. This section is the successor to the historical Briefs to Princes. Father Foster became one of the Pope's Latinists in the late 1960s.〔 After spending more than 40 years in Rome, he returned to Milwaukee in 2009.〔http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0904160.htm〕〔http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-112210-king-of-latin,0,1561237.story〕 Foster is an expert in Latin literature, especially Cicero, and is an internationally recognized authority on the Latin language.〔 〕 ==Biography== Foster has stated that since the age of 13 he has desired three things: 1) to be a monk, 2) to be a priest, and 3) to work with Latin. Foster grew up in a family of plumbers (his father, brothers, and uncles are plumbers). He went to junior seminary in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where he fell in love with Latin. He would sit in the library with Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary, fascinated by the entries. Foster went to Rome in the early 1960s to study. He also taught German. He is fluent in Latin, German, Italian, and his native English. Foster continues to suffer serious health complications resulting from a fall in June 2008, and was admitted on Saturday, January 17, 2009, into the Fatebenefratelli Hospital on the Tiber Island.〔(''What Does The Prayer Really Say?'' (blog), John Zuhlsdorf @ 12:33 pm, 24 January 2009 )〕 After a grueling several months spent mostly in intensive care, Foster narrowly avoided death. He finally recovered enough to be taken to the United States where has lived to recuperate and receive physical therapy at Clement Manor.〔('dotCommonweal' (blog), Cathleen Kaveny @ 7:47 a.m., 23 April 2009 )〕〔http://frcoulter.com/latin/foster/foster10.html〕 Due to his injuries, Foster canceled his Summer Latin program for 2009, but now intends to resume classes in the USA in 2010 (see below). In 2010 he joined the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia the president of which, Stephen Blackwood, is a former ''Aestiva Romae Latinitas'' student.〔http://www.ralston.ac〕 He currently lives in Greenfield, WI. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reginald Foster (Latinist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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