In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age
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In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age
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Overview
Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis-who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton-began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed, and bound inexpensively, with no mention of the author, by the Abbey of Gethsemani. They are now published here for a wide audience for the first time.
This work of the very young Merton perhaps takes on added significance when one considers the writing that lay just ahead of him at the time. In 1948, his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, was published and soon became an unexpected national bestseller. This long-awaited publication of In the Valley of Wormwood offers a window into Merton's thinking and his spiritual life just a few years before his phenomenal autobiography would see the light of day.
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. He was a renowned writer, theologian, poet, and social activist.
Patrick Hart, OCSO, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, entered the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1951 and served as secretary to Thomas Merton during the last year of his life. He has edited many books by and about Thomas Merton during the thirty-eight years since the latter's death on December 10, 1968. He has served on the board of directors for Cistercian Publications for the past thirty years.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780879077587 |
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| Publisher: | Liturgical Press |
| Publication date: | 10/24/2013 |
| Series: | Cistercian Studies Series , #233 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 468 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Catholic convert, Cistercian monk and hermit, poet, contemplative, social critic, and pioneer of interreligious dialogue, was a seminal figure of twentieth-century American Christianity.
Patrick Hart, OCSO, a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin, entered the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1951 and served as secretary to Thomas Merton during the last year of his life. He has edited many books by and about Thomas Merton during the thirty-eight years since the latter's death on December 10, 1968. He has served on the board of directors for Cistercian Publications for the past thirty years.
Table of Contents
Foreword Brian Patrick McGuire xi
Introduction Patrick Hart, OCSO xv
Preface xix
List of Abbreviations xxix
January
January 10 Blessed William, first Abbot of Aiguebelle, near Valence, France 3
January 14 Saint Guerin, Bishop of Sion, Switzerland 8
January 15 Blessed Amadeus of Hauterive, "the Elder," Monk of Bonnevaux, France 13
January 19 Saint William, Archbishop of Bourges, France 19
January 22 Blessed Walter of Bierbeck, Monk of Hemmerod, near Trier, Germany 31
January 24 Blessed Felix O'Dulany, Bishop of Ossory, Ireland 34
January 26 Saint Alberic, Second Abbot of Cîteaux, France 37
January 28 Saint Amadeus, Bishop of Lausanne, Switzerland 52
January 29 Blessed Alan of Lille, The Universal Doctor, Lay-brother of Cîteaux, France 55
January 30 Blessed Gerard, Brother of Saint Bernard, Cellarer of Clairvaux, France 58
February
February 4 Blessed Helinand, Monk of Froidmont, Picardy France 65
February 6 Saint Raymond, Abbot of Fitero, Spain, Founder of the Order of Calatrava 69
February 7 Blessed Nivard, Monk of Clairvaux, Brother of Saint Bernard 72
February 11 Saint Adolph, Monk of Camp, and Bishop of Canabruck, Germany 75
February 12 Blessed Humbeline, Sister of Saint Bernard 77
March
March 5 Saint Peter of Castelnau, Monk of Fontfroide, France, Martyr 85
March 11 Saint Stephen of Obazine, First Abbot of Obazine, near Tulle, France 93
March 13 Saint Sancha, Nun of Celles, Portugal 101
March 18 Blessed Christian O'Conarchy, First Abbot of Mellifont, Ireland 105
March 19 Blessed Abond, Monk of Villers, Brabant, Belgium 111
April
April 1 Saint Hugh, Abbot of Bonnevaux, near Vienne, France 119
April 3 Blessed Hermann, Lay-brother of Villers, Belgium 129
April 13 Blessed Ida of Louvain, Nun of Roosendael, Belgium 131
April 18 Blessed Idesbald, Abbot of the Dunes, Belgium 137
April 26 Saint Francha, Abbess of Plectoli, Italy 138
April 29 Saint Robert, Founder of Cîteaux, France 143
April 30 Blessed Aymon, Monk of Savigny, France 153
May
May 2 Blessed Mafalda, Princess of Portugal, Nun of Arouca, Portugal 159
May 3 Blessed Alexander of Scotland, Lay-brother of Foigny (near Laon) France 162
May 5 Saint Martin (Sacerdos) [of Finojosa], Abbot of Huerta, Bishop of Siguenza, Spain 164
May 6 Blessed Ponce de Polignac, Abbot of Grandselve, then of Clairvaux, and later Bishop of Clarmont, France 166
May 10 Saint Peter of Tarentaise, First Abbot of Tamie, Archbishop of Tarentaise (now Moutiers) 169
May 23 Blessed Aleth, Mother of Saint Bernard, and Tescelin, Father of Saint Bernard, Monk of Clairvaux 181
May 26 Blessed Asceline, Prioress of Boulancourt, near Troyes, France 186
June
June 1 Saints Bernard, Mary, and Grace, Monk of Poblet (Spain) and his sisters, Martyrs 195
June 7 Saint Robert of Newminster, Abbot of Newminster, England 199
June 12 Blessed Aleyde de Scharbeek, Nun of La Cambre, Belgium 204
June 12 Blessed Placid of Rodi, Abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Ghost, Ocra, Italy 210
June 16 Saint Lutgarde, Nun of Aywieres, Belgium 213
June 17 Saint Teresa, Infanta of Portugal, Nun of Lorvão 230
June 30 Saint Arnulph, Lay-brother of Villers, Belgium 236
July
July 8 Saint Theobald, Abbot of Vaux-de-Cernay, near Paris, France 247
July 8 Blessed Eugenius III, Abbot of Tre Fontane, Italy, Pope 250
July 9 Saint Albert, Lay-brother and Hermit of Saint Andrew of Sestri, near Genoa, Italy 256
July 16 Saint Stephen Harding, Third Abbot of Cîteaux, Founder of the Cistercian Order 262 July 16 Blessed Alan of Lille, The Universal Doctor, Lay-brother of Cîteaux [#2] 277
July 24 Blessed Baldwin of San Pastore, later Cardinal of Rieti, Italy 282
August
August 1 Blessed Ponce de Leras, Lay-brother of Silvanes, Southern France 287
August 2 Blessed William, First Abbot of Rievaulx, Yorkshire, England 292
August 3 Blessed Waltheof, Abbot of Melrose, Scotland 295
August 10 Blessed Lawrence, Lay-brother of Clairvaux, France 304
August 21 Blessed Gobert, Monk of Villers, Belgium 309
August 22 Saint Bernard de Candelada, Monk of Valdeiglesias, Spain 313
August 26 Blessed John of Caramola, Lay-brother of Sagittario, near Naples, Italy 314
August 29 Blessed Beatrice, Prioress of Nazareth Lierre, Belgium 318
September
September 8 Blessed William of Saint Thierry, Monk of Signy, near Rheims, France 327
September 29 Blessed John of Montmirail, Monk of Longpont, France 337
October
October 3 Blessed Godfrey the Sacristan, Monk of Villers, Belgium 347
October 8 Saint Martín Cid, Abbot of Valparaiso, Spain 352
October 13 Saint Maurice, Abbot of Langonnet and of Carnoet, Brittany, France 354
October 16 Saint Hedwig, Duchess of Silesia, Foundress of Trebnitz in Poland 357
October 23 Blessed Bertrand, Abbot of Grandselve, near Toulouse, France 362
October 25 Saint Bernard de Calvo, Bishop of Vich, Spain 367
October 29 Blessed Peter "Monocufus," Abbot of Igny, then of Clairvaux, France 371
October 29 Blessed Ida of Leeuwen (of Leau), Belgium 380
November
November 3 Saint Malachy, Bishop of Down, Ireland 391
November 6 Blessed Simon, Lay-brother of Aulne, Belgium 396
November 16 Saint Gertrude, Nun of Helfta, Germany 401
November 19 Saint Mechtilde, Nun of Helfta, Saxony 411
December
December 11 Blessed David, Monk of Himerrod, Germany 421
December 12 Blessed Ida of Nivelles, Nun of Ramege, Belgium 424
December 25 Blessed Foulques de Marseille, Abbot of Toronet, Bishop of Toulouse 430
Sources 437