Ar an lá seo 10 Meán Fómhair

	Ar an lá seo 10 Meán Fómhair, 1912, rugadh an Bráthair Antoninus.
Bhuaileas leis ag Scoil Merriman fadó. Is cuimhin liom go raibh sé ag iarraidh barróg a thabhairt do chloigtheach! Bhí an cloigtheach rómhór dó agus bhí cúpla ‘Gaeilgeoir’ i láthair nach raibh spiorad Merriman iontu i gceart agus a shíl nach raibh sé cuibhiúil in aon chor go mbeadh Bráthair Doiminiceach ag iarraidh pléisiúr a bhaint as cloigtheach, nó pléisiúr a thabhairt do chloigtheach nó pé cuimilt, dar leo, a bhí ar siúl eatarthu. B’in an dream céanna a chuir ‘fáilte’ roimh an mBráthair beannaithe an oíche roimhe sin, is dócha, de réir an chuntais seo ón Athair Wall sa leabhar William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus le Lee Bartlett:  “We went with the impression that it would be a guitar-strumming poets’ event, and Antoninus would be a hit. We got to the hotel and there was a group of tweedy-looking middle-aged people there. It looked like a convention of librarians. They were sitting there with Irish coffee in their hands, the most staid, stiff, formal, lifeless scene possible. Antoninus has a great streak of paranoia in those situations, where immediately he’d expect the worse – like a great joke had been played on the Yanks, that we had been set up and the people at the bar were laughing their heads off…”