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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bunge, Gabriel, Br., O.S.B.".
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.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Rousseau, Oliver" file for another monk of Chevetogne Abbey.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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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, |
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[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files]
«detailed view» |
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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 |
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[encloses Latin text from St. Augustine] mystical traditions of Meister Eckhart, Origen, and the early Cistercians / desire for the eremitic life
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