Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."

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Title

Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."

Creator

Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C.

Scope and Content

This letter from one abbess to another, regards Merton's article "Openness and the Cloister", and speaks of aggiornamento of the religious life in regard to the observance of silence.

Biographical Text

Abbess Marie of the Assumption Marie of the Assumption was of the Portiuncula Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Poor Clares-Colettines, in Mwanza, Tanzania. She writes to the Mother Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare in Lowell, Massachusetts (who likely forwarded her letter to Merton).

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1 item(s)

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1 folder(s)

Level

Record Group: Section A, Correspondence; Sub-Group/sub-section by person in correspondence with Merton. Records arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.

Identifier

Section A (Correspondence), File folder: "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."

Page

3 page(s)

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