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Conrad (Stephen) Pepler O.P. (5 May 1908 – 10 November 1993) was an English Dominican priest, writer, editor, and publisher. He was the founding Warden of the first
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conference centre in the UK, at Spode House, Staffordshire.


Life

He was born Stephen Pepler in Hammersmith, west
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, where his father
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was running a working-men's club. In 1916 the family moved to
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in Sussex, where Hilary,
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and
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set up the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, a community of Catholic artist-craftsmen. Hilary was the community's printer. Stephen was received into the Catholic Church in 1916, and sent to the Dominican boarding school at
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, Staffordshire. On leaving school he worked for his father in the printing shop until, in 1927, he entered the Dominican order, taking the name of Conrad. On 10 May 1948, he spoke in Oxford, England, to the Socratic Club on "The Necessity of Christian Mysticism" with T. M. Parker also addressing the topic. He and others attended
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on his deathbed in
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in 1951. He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.


Influence


Writings

*''The English religious heritage''. St Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1958. *''Sacramental prayer''. St Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1959. *''The three degrees: A study of Christian mysticism''. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1957. *''Riches despised: A study of the roots of religion''. St Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1957. *''Lent, a liturgical commentary on the lessons and gospels''. St Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1944.


External links

* * "Unrelieved grief is almost a pagan conception", by Conrad Pepler, O.P., Catholic Herald, 12 June 1953. http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/12th-june-1953/6/unrelieved-grief-is-almost-a-pagan-conception * Spode Music Week


Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pepler, Conrad 1908 births 1993 deaths English Dominicans English printers 20th-century English Roman Catholic priests 20th-century English businesspeople