Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1931-2005
Other form(s) of name
- Dom Flavian Burns
- Fr. Flavian Burns
- Thomas Burns
- Burns, Thomas
- Flavian, Fr., O.C.S.O.
- Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1931-2005
History
Dom Flavian Burns (born Thomas Burns in 1931) was Abbot of Gethsemani from 1968-1973. Dom Flavian approved Merton's trip to Bangkok and later approved a side journey in the same trip to India, where Merton met the Dalai Lama. Burns had been inspired by «Seven Storey Mountain» after high school and was drawn to Gethsemani. There, he studied under Merton when Merton was Master of Scholastics. In 1966, after Merton had paved the way for hermits, Burns was allowed to live as a hermit at Gethsemani until taking over as Gethsemani's seventh abbot in 1968. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, p. 35.)