Identificatie
Soort entiteit
Persoon
Geauthoriseerde naam
Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.
Parallelle vormen van de naam
Gestandaardiseerde naamvorm(en) volgens andere regels.
- Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1931-2005
Aandere naamsvormen
- Dom Flavian Burns
- Fr. Flavian Burns
- Thomas Burns
- Burns, Thomas
- Flavian, Fr., O.C.S.O.
- Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.
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Beschrijving
Bestaansperiode
1931-2005
Geschiedenis
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.)