# Father Apollinaris — Travel Essays character guide

> Father Apollinaris in Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Matthew Arnold Father Apollinaris, simple Father Apollinaris

**First appearance:** 0047-our-lady-of-the-snows

## Who they are

A monk at the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Snows.

## In the story

### [Our Lady of the Snows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/our-lady-of-the-snows)

Mentioned as having charged the narrator to show his sack to the Father Prior.

### [Father Apollinaris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/father-apollinaris)

A Trappist monk who first appears fighting with a barrow of turfs; he converses with the narrator and helps him gain entry to the monastery.

### [The Monks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-monks)

Mentioned as a monk who busies himself with making roads.

### [The Boarders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/the-boarders)

Simple Father Apollinaris who tolerantly used the narrator before the arrival of the boarders.

### [Florac](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/travel_essays_se/chapters/florac)

Paired with a Plymouth Brother as an example of guileless and devout old men, representing the Catholic side.

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