On Christmas Day, 2020, Reginald Foster passed away at the age of 81 in a nursing home facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 just days before.

This episode is not necessarily about his passing, however. It's about his life, and in particular, how he had one of the most unique jobs in the world.

Learn more about Reginald Foster, the world's foremost Latinist, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

This episode is sponsored by audible.com.

Today's audiobook recommendation is Long Live Latin,

The Pleasures of a useless language by

Nicola Gardini. What uses Latin? It's a question often asked by those who see the language of

Cicero as nothing more than a cumbersome heap of ruins and something to remove from the curriculum.

In this sustained meditation,

Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply.

Latin is quite simply the means of expression that made us and continues to make us who we are.

In Latin the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world.

The poet Propertius told of love and emotion in a dizzying variety of registers.

Caesar affirmed a man's capacity to shape reality through reason.

Virgil composed the Aniad without which we'd see all of Western history in a different light.

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To understand the mission and life of Reginald Foster,

you first have to know his title.

Father Reginald Foster.

Technically, he was a friar in the discolst Carmelite order,

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