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1912-1998
William Congdon was an American artist who converted to Catholicism in 1959. For much of his life, he was a wanderer who rejected a life as heir to a wealthy Rhode Island family. His conversion happened in Assisi, where he would live much of the rest of his life, dying in Italy in 1998. His early artistic influences came from the neo-romantic and abstract expressionist schools. After his conversion to Catholicism, he produced many religiously themed works of art. His biography from his foundation's web site likens his conversion to a "suicide", marginalizing him from the mainstream art community. Congdon wrote essays on art, especially sacred art and the duty of a Christian artist. Merton was writing about similar themes in his unpublished work, «Art and Worship». (Source: Official William Congdon Site, maintained by the William G. Congdon Foundation, ‹https://congdonfoundation.com›, 2004/09/16.)
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Fr. James Conner (who went by Fr. Tarcisius during his correspondence with Merton) came to Gethsemani in 1949, was ordained in 1957, and was assigned to theological studies in Rome at the beginning of his correspondence with Merton. He writes to Merton from Rome, Paris, and Mont des Cats Abbey in Northern France.
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Fr. Brendan Connolly was Director of Libraries for Boston College at the time of correspondence.
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Fr. Terence Connolly was Director of Libraries for Boston College from 1944 until 1959, succeeded by Brendan Connolly. He obtained a copy of a manuscript for «The Seven Storey Mountain» in the late 1940's.
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Mother Mary Consolata was Clarissine Abbess of the Madres Clarisas monastery in La Paz, Bolivia.
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Sr. Angela Conway was a Dominican sister living in England at the time of writing.
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1921-1983
Terence J. Cooke was Chancellor of the Vatican Pavilion for the New York World's Fair in 1964-1965. He was later made bishop of New York and named a cardinal in 1969.
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1905-1970
Doña Luisa Coomaraswamy was the widow of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, a scholar of Indian, Persian, and Islamic art, who saw a unifying truth underlying major religions of the world. Doña Luisa took the responsibility of organizing his papers after his death and attempted to collect some of his unfinished projects for publication as a book of collected writings. She died before finishing this project, but Roger Lipsey edited a two-volume set of his papers published in 1977 (source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», p. 125).
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