Thomas Merton The Twelve Great Feasts Arnold Damen was born in

Arnold Damen was born in the Brabant province of the Netherlands in 1815 when the tiny kingdom was no longer sending ships

the young priest was named Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn in 1909

Czar Nicholas II

People are often surprised to learn that one of the great mystics of the 20th century and founder of one of the great networks of ministering to the poor and marginalized of the inner cities of North America began life as a baroness and member of the Imperial aristocracy of Czarist Russia

Thomas Merton The Twelve Great Feasts Arnold Damen was born inThomas Merton (1915 1968) Despite the numerous and notable Catholic witnesses, martyrs, and heroes in the troubled and violent history of faith in the 20th century, Thomas Merton is one of the most striking examples of the struggle to find God in the most godless centuries. Merton was born in France in World War I to bohemian artist parents of no genuine faith. When he lost his mother at an early age, he traveled with his painter father or was shunted