Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Derivaux, Don, Fr. (also Fr. Francis Derivaux, O.C.S.O.)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Fr. Francis Derivaux
- Fr. Don Derivaux
- Derivaux, Don, Fr.
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Fr. Don Derivaux, known in his 18 years at Gethsemani as Francis, had later left the Trappists to become a priest in Mississippi. In 1965, while still with Gethsemani and studying in Rome, Merton writes and tells him of events at the abbey and of racial tensions in the south. Though he considers becoming laicized in his letter of 1968 to Merton, he remained a priest and has recently retired as a hermit.