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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "de Aguiar, Bernard Sylvanus, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Bernard de Aguiar was born in New Jersey in 1926. First a Benedictine, he transferred to Gethsemani and became a Trappist in 1951 where he took the name Sylvanus. After 11 years at the Abbey, he was ordained a priest. Soon after, in 1962, he obtained permission to live an eremitical life away from Gethsemani with Dom Jacques Winandy in Martinique. In 1969, he moved to Hornby Island (between the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island) and started a pottery studio called Earthen Vessels. He was laicized in 1974.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also a reference to him in Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, pp. 197-198.
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1961/08/26 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
God is certainly with you. It is good and I am very happy. Write to Fr PP. very concisely, dearly, |
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1961/10/no? |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Sorry I haven't replied sooner. The letter from P.P. was to be expected. That was as far as I got |
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1962/03/no? |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I hope everything works out soon as you desire. If Rev Father broke off the deal with Wygal it was |
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1964/12/no? (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
It has been almost two years since I last wrote you. Many events have taken place since then. |
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1964/12/no? (#02) |
other |
PROPOSAL FOR THE FOUNDING OF A COLONY OF HERMITS [-] Our desire is above all |
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1965/10/05 |
HLS to Merton |
It's been a long time since I have written to you. I heard you are at last staying at your |
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1966/05/21 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
It was good to get your note - maybe you are smart to return to the West Indies, but |
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1988/09/26 |
HLS to Center from De Aguiar, Bernard |
I thought you might want these photostats of notes written by Fr Louis to me while I was |
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