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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-071-#22
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Title
1967-06-12 (#02), other Bissey, 'Demande à Père Louis de Gethsemani (Th. Merton) un article comprenant de six à dix'
Date(s)
- 1967 June 12 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Includes a non-correspondence item enclosed with correspondence or such an item filed with correspondence.
Name of creator
(1912-2006)
Biographical history
Dom Colomban Bissey served as Abbot of Melleray in France, the mother house of the Abbey of Gethsemani, from 1958-1986. He conducted visitations to Gethsemani as he was Gethsemani's Father Immediate.
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First lines: "Demande à Père Louis de Gethsemani (Th. Merton) un article comprenant de six à dix pages"... Contents index: [attached to 1967/06/12 letter - memo passed on to Merton] asking Merton to write a short article on the Cistercian tradition from the middle ages to the present / Dom Vital Lehodey - article on the spirituality of St. Theresa of Lisieux / Bissey adds "Comment faites-vous pour la Censure de l'Ordre? J'espère qu'on vous en fait grâce!".
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- French
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from Merton to James Fox