Boston College Collection of Thomas Merton

McNiff, Mary Stack, -1976

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Mary Stack McNiff worked at Brookline Public Library and Harvard, and at St. John's Seminary as Assistant to the Librarian. Together with her husband, Philip J. McNiff, she was a devoted Catholic. They participated actively in the communities of Boston College and St. John’s Seminary by attending or sponsoring events for visitors. In particular, the McNiffs supported the Boston College Humanities Series, overseen by Father Francis Sweeney. Mary Stack McNiff wrote book reviews for Catholic pub...

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...

Stone, Naomi Burton.

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Trappists

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Since the early nineteenth century Trappists has been the popular name for the main branch of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance who were centered at the Abbey of La Grande Trappe in France until the restoration of Citeaux as the motherhouse in 1892. The reform was originally introduced by Armand de Rance, godson of Richelieu, who was at an early age provided with a number of benefices, including that of commendatory abbot of La Trappe. In 1662 he resigned all his benefices except that of ...

Hart, Patrick

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Catholic Church

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During much of Doctor José Gaspar de Francia's dictatorship (1814-1840), Paraguay was without a bishop and the church was harrassed. From the description of Libro de providencias, ordenes, y autos : por Dn. Juan Antonio Riveras, cura rector de la parrequial de la Villeta : manuscript, 1804-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612746619 An antiphonary is a book containing sacred vocal music, both the antiphons of the breviary, and the musical notes. An antiphon it...

Connolly, Brendan C. (Brendan Cyril)

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Brendan Cyril Connolly, SJ was born in Boston, MA on February 10, 1913 to Daniel Connolly and Mary E. Keane. Connolly was a graduate of Boston College, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Shadowbrook in 1931, and was ordained into the priesthood in 1943. Connolly was the first Jesuit priest to hold a doctorate in library science and received his degrees from Catholic University (B.S. in 1946) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in 1955). Connolly served as a librarian and professor of theology at W...

Connolly, Terence L. (Terence Leo), 1888-1961

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Terence Leo Connolly was born on September 26, 1888 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts to Terence and Catherine (Hayden) Connolly. He received his early education at Grove Street Grammar School in Providence, Rhode Island, before attending Pawtucket High School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1908, Connolly entered the Jesuit Novitiate of St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson in New York, where he studied for four years. Connolly was ordained in 1922, having studied and taught at Woodstock College, Maryland, F...

Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, Ky.)

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