The Call of the Desert: A Biography of Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus
Spink, Kathryn
ISBN 10: 0232519730 ISBN 13: 9780232519730
Published by Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 1994
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The story of an extraordinary woman called to a love which recognised no boundaries. Born in France in 1898, Little Sister Magdeleine yearned from an early age to befriend the neglected people of the Sahara. Delayed by sickness and the consequences of the 1914-18 war, she eventually founded the first of many "fraternities" in which groups of Sisters would "become one with" the nomads, the marginalised, and those who would not otherwise know a God who so loved humanity that he assumed the form of a vulnerable baby, born in Bethlehem.
Her Sisters were to be human before religious, a "smile upon the world" reflecting the love of God without proselytising. They worked in factories, travelled on lorries and lived at times in tents; they became gypsies amongst the gypsies, prisoners amongst the imprisoned. Their poverty and their resistance to the traditional separation between religious and secular life provoked criticism even from members of the Church to which they remained devotedly obedient.
Little Sister Magdeleine suffered physically and spiritually, journeying across deserts, seas and mountains to start fraternities among the world's most inaccessible people. From 1957 onwards she travelled in secret but extensively behind the Iron Curtain, where she was a presence of prayer and an initiator of fruitful friendships.
This first biography shows how, richly human yet profoundly spiritual, her life was essentially hidden. Yet when she died in 1989, she left a legacy of 1,400 Sisters from 64 nations, a multitude of friends of all creeds, nationalities and classes, and a message of continuing relevance for the world.
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Title: The Call of the Desert: A Biography of ...
Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good