| Author Quoted | Jean Leclercq o.s.b. |
| Title Quoted | Otia Monastica: Etudes sur le vocabulaire de la contemplation au Moyen âge |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/10/22 |
| Imprint | Rom : Herder. 1963 |
| Quotation | Your Otia came yesterday and I began it immediately. It is just what I am looking for. A splendid book. |
| Journal | The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction.; Selected and edited by Brother Patrick Hart. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1990, p. 247 |
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