Kurisumala : Francis Mahieu Acharya, a pioneer of Christian monasticism in India /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahieu-De Praetere, Marthe
Other Authors: Van Winkle, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Created: Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, c2007.
Series:Cistercian studies series ; no. 214.
Subjects:
Acharya, Francis.
Catholic Church > India > Clergy > Biography.
Cistercians > India > Biography.
Monasticism and religious orders > India > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • First part: childhood and youth (1912-1935)
  • A family during the war
  • Roots
  • The beautiful lady from Evreux
  • Return to Belgium
  • College years
  • The priest's troop
  • Jean's stubbornness manifests itself for the first time
  • A career all mapped out
  • London
  • In the 'second lancers'
  • The accident
  • The decision
  • The trip to the Orient
  • You shall leave your father and your mother
  • Second part: Trappist at Scourmont and Caldey (1935-1955)
  • The Abbey of Our Lady of Scourmont and Dom Anselme Le Bail
  • Novitiate
  • A military interlude
  • Ora et labora
  • Student in Rome
  • Under German occupation
  • The Luftwaffe
  • In Bethany with the farm brothers
  • Gestapo
  • After the war
  • In Caldey with Dom Anselme
  • Master of novices
  • Love lost for lady poverty
  • Father, Father, why have you abandoned me?
  • Crossing the desert
  • To Dom Anselme, for the fulfillment of long-held hopes
  • Paris
  • Languages and cultures of India
  • Caldey
  • Nothing is working out
  • Providential intervention
  • Farewells
  • Third part: India, foundation, and taking root (1955-1968)
  • Elephanta
  • A little detour to Ranchi
  • Shantivanam, the forest of peace
  • Dazzling Syriac experience
  • Farewell to Monchanin
  • The prodigal son and motherhouse
  • Pushpagiri
  • The mountain fallen from the sky
  • Rain and wind, bless the Lord
  • Gropings in the darkness
  • Turning point : pilot-village and Indo-Swiss project
  • A community of brothers
  • That all may be one : the separated brethren
  • In pursuit of the Penqitho
  • The evolution of the Catholic Church
  • A modern agricultural enterprise
  • Among the mountain people
  • The liturgical project
  • Monastic vesture
  • Visitors and early friends
  • Growth crisis
  • Fourth part: Kurisumala Ashram, its influence (1968-1988)
  • An interrupted sabbatical year
  • To the Himalayas
  • First foundation : Shantivanam
  • Encounter with Hinduism
  • Congress in Bangkok
  • The community at the beginning of the 1970s
  • A second foundation : Thirumalai
  • Gheeta Bhavan
  • Around the world
  • The operation
  • Shantivanam emancipated
  • Prayer with the harp of the spirit
  • Silver jubilee
  • Fifth part: fulfillment (1988-2001)
  • A visit from the Lord
  • Slow apprenticeship of rest
  • Cistercian approaches
  • Albano
  • Incorporation into the Cistercian Order
  • Lourdes : Dom Francis Mahieu-Acharya
  • At the gates of Sheol
  • All is blessing
  • Epilogue.

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