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- 1961 December 3 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after original.
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Biographical history
Fr. Francis Mahieu Acharya, a native of Belgium who later became a Cistercian monk there, came to India in 1955 and founded a monastery in 1958. He was a pioneer in a rebirth of Syriac monasticism and of blending it with Indian spiritual traditions, such as the Upanishads, and was later Acharya, or "teacher" (and abbot), of the Kurisumala Ashram. They became officially a part of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) in 1988 and follow the liturgy of the Syro-Malankara Church (a Catholic Church in communion with Roman Catholicism).
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First lines: "Mon séjour en votre ashram fût une découverte bien agréable. Pour la première fois je vis, réalisé,"... Contents index: author listed as "(S) C. Kuriakose".
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- French