At Presentation Manor, Scarborough, Ontario, July 25, 2019, after a long decline and a hip fracture. He was predeceased by his parents Robert Leo Lee and Helen Miller Lee and his brothers John and Robert and is survived by his brothers Matthew and Vincent, sisters-in-law and nine nieces and nephews. Mark Owen Lee was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 28 May 1930. After graduating from Catholic Central High School, Detroit, he joined the Basilian Fathers of Toronto in 1948 and was ordained a priest on 29 June 1957. He taught Latin and Greek literature in colleges in Toronto, Houston, Chicago, Rome, and Oakland, California, while also doing weekend priestly ministry in local parishes. He made many public talks, received several honorary degrees, and published sixteen books and over 200 scholarly articles about classical authors, cinema, and opera. In the latter field he gave several dozen radio talks during intermissions of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, that were eagerly followed by millions of listeners worldwide, and made several sound recordings of them on C-D ROM. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. until the 10:00 a.m. Funeral Mass on Saturday, August 10, at St. Basil’s Church, 50 St. Joseph St., Toronto. Burial will be at the Basilian plot at Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, ON. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Basilian Fathers Retirement Fund, 95 St. Joseph Street, Toronto ON M5S 3C2.
