Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Lee, Paulinus, Dom, O.C.S.O.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Lee, Paulinus, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1906-1980
Other form(s) of name
- Dom Paulinus Lee
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1906-1980
History
Dom Paulinus Lee was the founder of a Trappist monastery on Lantao Island near Hong Kong. Having been born in Peking, he became a entered the Trappist Monastery of Consolation, Yang Kia Ping, in 1919. In 1941, he elected as Titular Prior at Our Lady of Joy, but had to flee Communist oppression and found a new monastery near Hong Kong in the late 1940's. (Source: website of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, ‹http://archives.catholic.org.hk/memory/P-Lee.htm›; originally appearing in the 1980/08/08 edition of Hong Kong's Catholic Sunday Examiner, ‹http://sundayex.catholic.org.hk/›.)