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4 unusual facts about Henri Nouwen


Abbey of the Genesee

In 1974, the Dutch priest and writer Henri Nouwen was allowed to live with the community of monks as a temporary member for seven months.

Henri Nouwen

After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to work with mental and physically handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada.

Sue Mosteller

When Henri Nouwen died in 1996, he entrusted Sue Mosteller with his estate, making her the literary executrix of his works.

She was a colleague and close friend of Henri Nouwen when he lived at L'Arche Daybreak (1986 - 1996).



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