Merton's Correspondence with:

Arcadio María Cardinal Larraona Saralegui; Archbishop Larraona; Arcadio Larraona Saralegui

Larraona Saralegui, Arcadio María, Cardinal, 1887-1973

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1952-1960
Volume:	12 item(s); 27 pg(s)

Merton writes to Larraona during the period he was considering transferring to the Camaldolese to live an eremitical lifestyle and achieve more solitude than was afforded at Gethsemani Abbey with the Trappists.

Biography

Archbishop (later elevated to Cardinal) Arcadio Larraona was a head of the Sacred Congregation for Religious at the Vatican. He wrote the prologue to the Italian translation of The Ascent to Truth.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1952/10/26	HLS to Merton	ho ricevuto		«detailed view»
2.	1954/06/16 (#01)	TLS to Merton	il Reverendissimo Padre Larraona mi incarica di farLe pervenire il Prologo al Suo libro "The Ascent		«detailed view»
3.	1954/06/16 (#02)	other	PROLOGO [-] Accolgo ben volentieri il cortese invito di premettere alcune brevi e semplici		[annotated typescript of the Prologue to the Italian version of The Ascent to Truth] «detailed view»
4.	1955/03/02	HLS to Merton	ho ricevuto la lettera di V.R.		«detailed view»
5.	1955/08/24	TL[c] from Merton	Bien que je sache que vous etes l'homme le plus occupé de la curie romaine, je vous addresse		«detailed view»
6.	1955/09/26 (#01)	HLS to Merton	la lettera di V. R. del 24, viii	✓	«detailed view»
7.	1955/09/26 (#02)	transcript to Merton	I was not in Rome when Your Reverence's letter of August 24 arrived, and so my reply has been	✓	«detailed view»
8.	1957/03/16	HLS to Merton	[indecipherable word.. ] e saluta in Domino il Rev.d P. Merton e		«detailed view»
9.	1957/04/21	HLS to Merton	ho ricevuto le lettera di V.R. del 30 III e ho		«detailed view»
10.	1959/09/08 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Vous savez qu'en 1955, lorsque je cherchais une vie contemplative plus simple, plus primitive	✓	«detailed view»
11.	1959/09/08 (#02)	transcript from Merton	You will remember that in 1955, when I was looking for a contemplative life that would be more	✓	[photocopied transcript from published letters] «detailed view»
12.	1960/02/05	HLS to Merton	Ho ricevuto e letto con vivo interessamento la lettera di V.R. a me diretta e la lettera		«detailed view»

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