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Author : Mother Mary Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Walled in Light: Saint Colette written by Mother Mary Francis and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sister Perrine De Baume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649590664
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Two Lives of Saint Colette written by Sister Perrine De Baume and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) was a French reformer of the Franciscan Order and the founder of seventeen convents. Though of humble origin, she attracted the support of powerful patrons and important Church officials. The two biographies translated here were authored by Pierre de Vaux, her confessor and mentor, and Perrine de Baume, a nun who for decades was Colette's companion and confidant. Both accounts offer fascinating portraits of the saint as a pious ascetic assailed by demons and performing miracles, as well as in her role as skillful administrator and caring mother of her nuns. This is the first English translation of two biographies in Middle French of the most important female figures of the Middle Ages.
Author : Judith Thurman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307789810
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Flesh written by Judith Thurman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation. Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazi occupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies of our time. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Author : Mother Mary Francis P C C
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Walled in Light written by Mother Mary Francis P C C and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint for those difficulties. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, the Franciscans without St. Bonaventure, or the Dominicans without Blessed Jordan? Likewise, where would the Poor Clares be without St. Colette? Colette of Corbie was born in one of the most turbulent times in the Church, the 14th century. She moved within the world of the Western Schism, having interacted with many of the great figures of her day, men as diverse as the anti-Pope Pedro de Luna, Pope Martin V, and St. John Capistrano. She was also active during the close of the Hundred Years' War between France and England and was also a contemporary of St. Joan of Arc. But her most enduring legacy is her reform of the Second Order of St. Francis, the Poor Clares. Mother Mary Francis tells the amazing story of this great saint, whose life was filled with miracles, who defeated the devil with humility, prayer and trust in God. She writes Colette's life with flowing prose that connects her to the great and dramatic events of her time, while at every turn bringing out the work of God in her soul. Saint Colette is a saint to know better, who along with others in laboring in the troubled vineyard of the 15th century, did so much to heal and reform the Church.
Author : Jane Gilmour
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
ISBN 13 : 1743580673
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Colette's France written by Jane Gilmour and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A biography as sensuously satisfying as a fine French meal. Colette surely would have approved it as much for its aesthetic appeal as for its rare insight and scholarship.’ Robyn Davidson Colette’s France is the remarkable life story of an extraordinary woman, who was known simply as ‘Colette’. This lavishly illustrated biography of the French writer, who was as famous for her novels as for her often controversial life, follows her journey through the landscapes of France where she lived and loved – from a childhood in Burgundy and coming of age in the Belle Époque Paris, to Provence and St Tropez. Jane Gilmour recounts the varied lives of a sensual, artistic, rebellious woman who lived life on her own terms, from prodigious writer and journalist, risqué performer, lover and seducer, businesswoman, baroness, mother, and finally, grand old lady of letters. Dr Jane Gilmour is an Australian with a personal passion and extensive knowledge of Colette and her life. Jane lived in France for many years where she studied the writer at the Sorbonne and completed her thesis on the writer there. Jane has continued her passion for her subject frequently returning to France to write this book and to visit the regions where Colette lived, loved and worked.
Author : Elisabeth Lopez
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576592175
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) written by Elisabeth Lopez and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309845
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Colette of Corbie written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Colette of Corbie presents a collection of essays offering new historical and religious perspectives on the life, career, and influences of this little-studied fifteenth-century saint. Colette of Corbie, a contemporary of Joan of Arc, established an important reform movement in the Franciscan order; founded numerous monasteries for women in Burgundy, France, and the Low Countries; and had connections with high ranking Burgundian and French noble families. Essays in this volume draw upon many relatively unknown primary sources and add significantly to the scholarship on this important religious figure. Contributors are: Anna Campbell, Joan Mueller, Andrea Pearson, Jane Marie Pinzino, Monique Somme, Ludovic Viallet, and Nancy Bradley Warren
Author : Mother Mary Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578653761
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Walled in Light: The Life of St. Colette written by Mother Mary Francis and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing life of St. Colette, a Poor Clare Nun that helped reform the Church in the 15th century.
Author : Mrs. Gertrude PARSONS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (753 download)
Download or read book The Life of Saint Colette, the Reformer of the Three Orders of St. Francis, Etc written by Mrs. Gertrude PARSONS and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Lang
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1933184132
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by Mrs. Lang and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True stories and legends about the saints.
Author : Elsie B. Martinez
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158980841X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Henriette Delille written by Elsie B. Martinez and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1812, this fictional biography follows the life of Henriette Delille, a free woman of color who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family. This examination recounts her spiritual journey and struggle to break free from French Quarter society, despite her family’s protests. Instead, she chose to focus on the needs of the less fortunate, teaching such principles as chastity and obedience, until her death in 1862. Today the Catholic Church is considering the Venerable Henriette Delille for sainthood, making her the first African American in North America to receive such an honor. Her story provides a glimpse of what life was like in the French Quarter during the nineteenth century and offers enlightenment on voodoo traditions and the plaçage system.
Author : Colette Livermore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439109591
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Hope Endures written by Colette Livermore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The searing memoir of an extraordinary woman who served as a nun for eleven years in Mother Teresa's order, Hope Endures is a compelling chronicle of idealistic determination, rigid discipline, and shattering disillusionment. InÊher life's journey from certainty to doubt, Colette Livermore enters the Missionaries of Charity order in 1973 with unwavering faith and total surrender ofÊher will and intellect after seeing a documentary on the order's work in India. Only eighteen at the time, Livermore has been studying to enter medical school -- a lifelong goal -- but virtually overnight severs her many ties with family, friends, and the life she's known in beautiful, rural New South Wales in order to train as a sister to aid the poor. In the process, she also gives herself over to the order's unexpectedly severe, ascetic regime, which demands blind obedience and submission. Given the religious name Sister Tobit, Livermore serves in some of the poorest places in the world -- the garbage dump slums of Manila, Papua New Guinea, and Calcutta -- bringing hope and care to people who are desperately ill, hungry, abandoned, and even dying, and comforting whomever she can. Although she draws inspiration and strength from her humanitarian work, Livermore and other nuns risk their own physical health, as they are sent to dangerous areas while being unschooled in the languages and cultures, untrained in medical care, and sometimes unprotected by vaccines. Livermore herself succumbs to bouts of drug-resistant cerebral malaria that almost kill her and to a new strain of hepatitis. Over time she also beginsÊto notice that the order's rigid insistence on unquestioning obedience harms the young sisters mentally, emotionally, and spiritually -- and she experiences a terrible inner struggle to find the right path for herself. As she tries to respond to the suffering around her, she often falls into an incomprehensible conflict between her vow to obey and her vow to serve, between religious strictures and the practice of compassion, between authority and personal conscience. Pressured to stay with the order by Mother Teresa and other superiors, as well as by the younger nuns, Livermore nonetheless decides to leave at age thirty and attain her medical degree, continuing to take health care and relief to impoverished people in remote areas -- the isolated aboriginal communities of the Outback and war-torn East Timor. Even as she serves others as a medical doctor, she continues in a crisis of faith thatÊeventually leads her to become an agnostic. Hope Endures is the eye-opening, deeply affecting story of a brave woman's search for meaning in a world that is rent with tragedies and contradictions. It is also an unflinching critique of any faith that insists on blind obedience. For true hope to endure, Dr. Livermore demonstrates, we must always strive to question, to face the hard truths, and to discover the courage to follow our convictions.
Author : Mother Mary Francis
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898708249
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)
Download or read book A Right to Be Merry written by Mother Mary Francis and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊCan life really be "merry" inside a Poor Clare cloister? This happy book reveals the challenges, cares and joys of that cloistered life from an "insiders" view. The poet's cry, "O world, I cannot hold you close enough!" is the heart's cry of the enclosed contemplative. No one who has not lived in a cloister can fully understand just how intertwined are the lives of cloistered nuns. Their hearts may be wide as the universe and bottomless as eternity, but the practical details of their living are boxed up into the small area within the enclosure walls. Cloistered nuns rub souls as well as elbows all their lives, and if they do not step out of themselves to get a true perspective, they can become small-souled and petty and remain immature children all their lives long. But, as Mother Mary Francis points out, they also have "as great a right to be merry as any lady in the world." Nor is merriment all. "Hidden away from the glare and noise of worldly living," Mother Mary Francis writes, "we are enclosed in the womb of holy Church. I walk down the cloisters, and my heart moves to a single tune: Lord, it is good, so good to be here!"
Author : Patricia Mathson
Publisher : Enriching Faith
ISBN 13 : 9781585959372
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Prayers and Activities on Service written by Patricia Mathson and published by Enriching Faith. This book was released on 2013 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : European Perspectives
ISBN 13 : 9780231128971
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Colette written by Julia Kristeva and published by European Perspectives. This book was released on 2005 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius, Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight.
Author : Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life of Saint Colette, the Reformer of the Three Orders of St. Francis written by Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colette Rossant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743442814
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Return to Paris written by Colette Rossant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates the outdoor markets and café menus and emerges into her new, gastronomical self. Return to Paris is an extraordinary coming-of-age story that charts the course of Colette's culinary adventures -- replete with expertly crafted recipes and family photographs. An exploration of passion in all its flavor and texture, Colette's memoir will live in the hearts and palates of readers for years to come.
