Tribute to professor Daniel Callus

Abstract

There have been in the past great Maltese Dominicans who distinguished themselves in foreign universities, but for us the term 'Great Maltese Dominican' can only mean one, Fr. Daniel Callus, who lived among, con- versed with and taught us, and whose recent death leaves us with a sense of irreparable impoverishment. That he was an old man, 77 years old, does not make his loss any less painful, since some of his recent discoveries in mediaeval thought have not yet been published. Luckily three Oxonian scholars, B. Smalley of St. Hilda's College, R.W.Hunt of the Bodleian Library and W.A.Pantin of Oriel College, have taken responsibility for his literary works, with a view to publishing them.