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Gethsemani and Thomas Merton
1848
Trappist, Kentucky
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French Trappists founded a silent monastery in the Kentucky knobs. A century later Thomas Merton entered it and wrote The Seven Storey Mountain, an unlikely bestseller that sent a wave of postwar men to monasteries, and then spent twenty years writing from here on nonviolence, race and Buddhism until the abbey could barely contain the correspondence.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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