MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
de Trinis, Randall (alias Fr. Sebastian, O.C.S.O.)
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1959, 1964, 1967-1968
Volume: 17 item(s); 21 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "de Trinis, Randall (alias Fr. Sebastian, O.C.S.O.)".
Biography
According to a note to handwritten on one of the letters, Randy de Trinis, known at Gethsemani as Sebastian, entered Gethsemani in 1955, made simple profession in 1957, and left the monastery on June 9, 1959. He later writes from St. Joseph's Priory in Somerset, Ohio. In his last cards, he speaks of a desire to enter Christ in the Desert, a Benedictine monastery in New Mexico.
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