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John Main (Douglas William Victor Main) was born on 21 January, 1926 in London, England, is a Priest and monk. Discover John Main's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

Popular As Douglas William Victor Main
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Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 21 January 1926
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace London, England
Date of death 30 December, 1982
Died Place Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Oman

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1909

Main became a strictest and was assigned to Kuala Lumpur in Malaya, where he met Dr Swami Satyananda (1909-1961), who taught him meditation using a Mantra as the means to arrive at meditative stillness.

The swami taught Main to meditate by giving him a Christian Mantra.

Main through his own work understood that Mantra was also an ancient Christian tradition.

The Mantra he recommended was ‘Maranatha’, an ancient Aramaic phrase meaning ‘Come Lord’.

1926

John Douglas Main OSB (21 January 1926 – 30 December 1982) was a Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who presented a way of Christian meditation which used a prayer-phrase or Mantra.

1940

In the 1940s he joined the Canons Regular of the Lateran and studied at the diocesan seminary of St Edmund's College, Ware in England before being chosen to pursue theology studies at the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, Rome.

He began to doubt his vocation to the priesthood and decided to leave his order to go to Dublin (where his family then lived), where he studied law at Trinity College.

1954

He graduated in 1954 and joined the British Colonial Service, working as a civil servant.

1956

In 1956, Main returned to Dublin and taught law at Trinity College.

1959

In 1959 he decided to join the Benedictines at Ealing Abbey in London.

He took the name of John, in honour of St John the Apostle.

1963

He was ordained a priest in 1963.

Following his ordination he taught at St Benedict's School, Ealing, which is governed by the monastic community of Ealing Abbey.

1970

In 1970, Main was appointed the headmaster of St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D.C., where he began to study seriously the writings of the desert father John Cassian for the first time.

Main saw parallels between the spiritual practice taught by Cassian and the meditative practice he had been taught by the swami in Kuala Lumpur.

1974

In 1974, Main left Saint Anselm's Abbey in Washington and returned to Ealing Abbey in London, where he began Christian meditation groups at an old house on the monastery grounds.

He was assisted in this work by Laurence Freeman, also a monk of Ealing Abbey.

1975

In 1975, Main began Christian meditation groups which met at Ealing Abbey, his monastery in West London, England, and, later, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

These were the origins of the ecumenical network of Christian meditation groups which have become the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM).

John Main was born in London as Douglas Main, the fourth of six children of David and Eileen Main.

1977

In 1977, Main and Freeman were sent to establish a new Benedictine monastery in Montreal, Quebec.

There too, they taught Christian meditation groups.

1982

Main died of cancer, at the Benedictine monastery in Montreal in 1982 and is buried at Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY.

He was succeeded by Laurence Freeman.

Freeman continued Main's work, travelling widely to establish Christian meditation groups across the world.

1991

In 1991, these Christian meditation groups were networked together into the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM).

2014

Each year the WCCM hosts the John Main Seminar, which has been led by Mary McAleese, Huston Smith, Charles Taylor, Father William Johnston, Father Richard Rohr OFM, Sister Joan Chittister OSB, Anglican archbishop Rowan Williams, Greek Orthodox bishop Kallistos Ware, Abbot Thomas Keating, Dom Bede Griffiths and the 14th Dalai Lama, among others.

For full list of books about and from John Main, consult the web pages of the WCCM (The World Community For Christian Meditation): https://wccm.org/content/works-by-and-about-john-main/