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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-148-#02
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1963-12-12, TLS to Merton, 'Nearly one year ago I got a letter from you, in which letter you gave me some good'
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- 1963 December 12 (Creation)
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3 page(s); Typed signed letter.
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At the time of writing, Br. Gabriel Bunge was a Benedictine monk of Chevetogne Abbey, a monastery known for seeking reconciliation between Western and Eastern Christianity. He was later ordained as a monk, lived as a hermit in Swiss mountains from the 1980's, and was received into the Orthodox Church as a monk in 2010.
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First lines: "Nearly one year ago I got a letter from you, in which letter you gave me some good counsels, which I"... Contents index: [encloses Latin text from St. Augustine] mystical traditions of Meister Eckhart, Origen, and the early Cistercians / desire for the eremitic life.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Bunge, Gabriel, Br., O.S.B.