MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kacmarcik, Frank, Obl.S.B., 1920-2004
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1957-1960
Volume: 16 item(s); 34 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kacmarcik, Frank, Obl.S.B.".
Biography
On later letters to Merton, Frank Kacmarcik's letterhead stated he was an "artist, designer, consultant in the sacred arts". After a few years of corresponding with Merton, Kacmarcik and his friend Bob Rambusch visit Gethsemani in October of 1960. Merton notes in his personal journal of being "a little suspicious of the intense activation and restlessness of some of these liturgical enthusiasts", although noting he has "[n]othing against liturgy" (personal journals, 1960/10/16). Kacmarcik became a Benedictine novice at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1940, but left the order and became an assistant chaplain in World War II. After the war, he stayed in Paris and studied at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière and the Centre d'Art Sacré. In 1950, he came back to the United States teaching art for a few years at St. John's University in Collegeville. He did book design and was the longtime artistic director for Worship magazine and was a graphic artist for Liturgical Press. He collaborated with Hungarian Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. St. John's welcomed him back to their community in 1988 as a claustral oblate, where he remained until his death in 2004.
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See also the "Rambusch, Robert" and the "Robinson, John-David" files; and see also "Three prayers : written for Frank Kacmarcik" from Volume 18 of The Merton Annual.
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