MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Guala, Filiberto, Fr., O.C.S.O.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1968
Volume: 21 item(s); 32 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Guala, Filiberto, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Biography
Fr. Filiberto Guala was a monk of the Cistercian abbey of Frattocchi which is near Rome. Pope Paul VI, a longtime friend of Guala, commissioned him and his Abbot, Francis Decroix, to write up a "Message of Contemplatives" to present to a Synod of Bishops. Merton and others were asked to contribute and much of Merton's addition was used. (Source: The School of Charity, p. 344.)
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See also published letters from Merton to Guala in The School of Charity, pp. 344-345, 346, 349-350 (these two pages not in published index), 359-360, 371-373 and 382.
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