Pennington, M. Basil
Biographical Note
M. Basil Pennington was active during his teenage years in the Legion of Mary, CCD, and CYO, working among the disadvantaged in Brooklyn parishes. He entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Saint Joseph in Spencer, Massachusetts in 1951 and was ordinated in 1956. With Thomas Merton, he started Cistercian Publications in 1968 and founded The Institute of Cistercian Studies at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo in 1973. Father Pennington became nationally known through the contemplative Centering Prayer movement. He died in 2005.
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M. Basil Pennington papers
These papers are composed of articles, conference materials, correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, proofs, and reviews of scholar and Trappist monk M. Basil Pennington. Much of the material relates to Catholic spirituality and Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Also includes articles, manuscripts, and reviews by other authors on similar topics.
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