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Merton's Correspondence with:

Fr. Gabriel Bunge, O.S.B.; Br. Gabriel Bunge, Gabriel; Hieromonk Gabriel Bunge, Hieromonk

Bunge, Gabriel, Br., O.S.B.  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1963
Volume: 2 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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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Related Information and Links

See also the "Rousseau, Oliver" file for another monk of Chevetogne Abbey.

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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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1. 1963/02/22 TLS[x] from Merton I am afraid I am not able to be a very good correspondent. Sometimes I can answer letters, [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files] «detailed view»
2. 1963/12/12 TLS to Merton Nearly one year ago I got a letter from you, in which letter you gave me some good counsels, which I [encloses Latin text from St. Augustine] mystical traditions of Meister Eckhart, Origen, and the early Cistercians / desire for the eremitic life «detailed view»

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