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Footage from the Gethsemani Abbey centenary celebration on June 1, 1949. Footage contains images of Monsignor Fulton Sheen, Dom James Fox (Abbot of Gethsemani), and Earle C. Clements, governor of Kentucky, who both spoke at the celebration.
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Images of Joseph Zarrella in uniform for the American Field Service. ca. 1943
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Audio clip of Merton in his hermitage at Gethsemani, May 20, 1967
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This excerpt is from Merton's final address as novice master before his permanent move to the hermitage. Beginning in April 1962 Thomas Merton's lectures to the novices, and then later to the community, were recorded. Merton describes "a life without care."
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Footage of Thomas Merton at the Gethsemani Abbey centenary celebration in 1949.
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Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton regarding an article in TIME magazine.
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Statement issued by Forest on behalf of Thomas Merton regarding his present status as a Trappist monk.
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Memo sent to Merton and others regardng a call for prominent concerned Catholics to write to the Papal Nuncio in Bogota, Colombia to help fund a proposed Ecumenical Congress.
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Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship.
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Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton.