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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
McKiernan, Hugh, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1918-1997

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964

Volume: 3 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Dom Hugh McKiernan was a Trappist abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Cross Abbey, in Berryville, Virginia. He was appointed superior of Holy Cross in 1956 and was elected the first abbot of the monastery when it became an independent abbey, serving as abbot from 1958 to 1964. He later transferred his stability to Mount Saviour, a Benedictine monastery near Elmira, New York. Merton met McKiernan in October of 1968 at La Casa de Maria retreat center in Santa Barbara.

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Container List

Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Notes
1964/10/18	HLS	to Merton	Father Bernard just called my attention to your card on Valery-Radot's volume on St. Bernard.
1964/10/26	TALS[x]	from Merton to Hugh McKiernan and Bernard Collins	I am very glad to hear about the resumption of Monastic Studies and glad that you are working	[see "Collins, Bernard" file for original - to Dom Hugh McKiernan and to Fr. Bernard Collins - no date, but seemingly a followup to the 1964/October/18 letter of Bernard Collins]
undated/no/no	HLS	to Merton	I want to thank you for the assistance you're continuing to give 'Monastic Studies', for your

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