OPENING SESSION OF SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL — Abbot Jerome Weber of St. Peter's Abbey, left, attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. He is accompanied by two other Benedictine abbots: Baldwin Dworschak of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minn., and David Melancon of St. Joseph's Abbey, St. Joseph, La. Abbot Jerome attended the council as an abbot-ordinary while the other two abbots were presidents of the American Casinese and Swiss American congregations respectively. (Photo: St. Peter's Abbey Archives)