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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-B-048-#9
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undated, other[x], '(His first Mass) "Friday I said that Mass I had promised to Our Lady of Cobre… It'
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- undated (Creation)
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1 page(s); Xerox copy of a miscellaneous item.
Name of creator
(1930-2009)
Biographical history
A student of Sr. Marialein Lorenz in Mobile, Alabama, Gloria Sylvester Bennett was part of the class who sent Merton some ordination gifts. She sends a book by her husband, Lerone Bennett, «Confrontation: Black and White». (Source: «The Road to Joy», p. 341.)
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First lines: "(His first Mass) "Friday I said that Mass I had promised to Our Lady of Cobre… It was at St. Anne's"... Contents index: photocopy of a handwritten quote from «The Sign of Jonas», p. 194, copyright 1953 / describes Merton's first Mass in 1949 and the amice, corporal, purificator, and finger towel which came from Gloria Bennett's Catholic High School class of black students in Mobile, Alabama.
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Languages of the material
- English