Few people have ever seen or heard of The Spirit of Simplicity it has been hidden for almost seventy years after quietly being published by the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1948.
Anonymously translated and annotated by a young monk named Thomas Merton, the book\'s author--who also is not mentioned by name in the original edition--is Jean-Baptiste Chautard, the famous French Cistercian whose only other book, The Soul of the Apostolate , has been a favorite of modern saints and popes, includ.
Few people have ever seen or heard of The Spirit of Simplicity it has been hidden for almost seventy years after quietly being published by the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1948