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Thomas Merton was born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, on January 31, 1915, to parents of Welsh origin: Owen Merton, a New Zealand painter active in Europe and the United States, and Ruth Jenkins Merton, an American Quaker and artist.
Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton , the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani . Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously.
The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.
This year marked the 75th anniversary of his seminal work, ‘The Seven Storey Mountain.’
Thomas Merton was his novice master. “A Matter of the Heart” draws from Quenon’s experiences and observations over five of his more than six decades inside the cloister.
Paul Prather: John Paul Merton is little known partly because Thomas cast such a long shadow, and partly because John Paul died very young.