Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Chaves, Maria Braz
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Chaves, Maria Braz, 1934-
Other form(s) of name
- Maria Braz Chaves
- Maria Braz
- Maria Therezinha Braz Chaves
- Maria Therezinha
- Maria Chaves
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1934-
History
Maria Braz Chaves (Maria Therezinha) writes from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Merton wrote her a brief letter of thanks in November of 1966. The letter is not extant but was reproduced for a book by Maria Braz Chaves, «Um Ser Entre Bilhões». The book was published in 1969 and Braz Chaves sends a copy with a note in the book and a separate letter to Dom Flavian Burns, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, in memory of Thomas Merton.