Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Jones, Gracie M.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Gracie Jones
- Gracie M. Jones
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
While visiting Redwoods Abbey in the spring of 1968, Merton met Gracie Jones. (She is of no relation to Frank Jones of Merton's correspondence.) She wrote an article for the San Francisco archdiocesan newspaper after Merton's death discussing the meaningfulness to her of sharing retreat space with Merton, his support for her as an African-American Catholic, and his offer to write a preface for a book she had planned to write, "The Negro and the Catholic Church."