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Type of entity
Person
Forma autorizată a numelui
Luces, Maureen
Formularul paralel (e) de nume
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Alta forma(e) a numelui
- Maureen Luces
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Dates of existence
Istorie
Maureen Luces, a 19-year old from Brooklyn, New York, wrote to Merton asking advice about whether to become a cloistered Carmelite nun or to enter a missionary order. Merton's answer to her letter is the only extant piece of correspondence. According to her daughter, Luces was later prevented from entering a convent based on racial exclusion, but became a Fullbright Scholar in France and attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She later married and became a member of the Third Order Carmelites.