Dom Paulo

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also known as the abbot, Father Abbot, Paulo

Authority/Mediator

Abbot presiding over the abbey in Part II; ill but determined; mediates between Thon Taddeo and monastic tradition; ultimately confronts the scholar over the abbey's military vulnerability and dismisses him with dignity.

In A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960)