Le jour du Saint-Esprit
Collection L'Histoire à vif
592 pages - nov. 2011
44,00€
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Saint Marie de Paris (1891-1945), was a firebrand of a woman, a passionate being whose existence bore witness to her love for mankind, life itself, and Christ. Star of the Saint Petersburg literary salons, twice married and mother of three children, a Socialist-Revolutionary involved in the Russian Revolution and mayoress of a Black Sea town, she emigrated to France, was deported to Germany during the Second World War and died in Ravensbrück on Holy Saturday 1945. This woman of many talents has left us poems, articles, stories, plays, icons and embroideries. ‘I want to be a mother to everyone,’ she declared when she applied to enter a convent in 1932. Her bishop advised her: ‘Your monastery will be the desert of human hearts.’ Scandalising some, she opened foyers and canteens, and her ‘convent in the world’ became the refuge of all those whom life had wounded: tramps, drunkards, the homeless and in occupied Paris, persecuted Jews. In 1985, the Institut Yad Vashem in Jerusalem made her a ‘Righteous among the nations’ and she was canonised by the Orthodox Church in 2004. This book assembles the writings of Mother Marie, most of them published for the first time in France: autobiographical accounts, mystery plays, theological essays, polemic articles intended to ‘open the eyes of the blind’ as well as recollections of her close relatives and companions. ‘I don’t want to be a memory for you’, wrote the nun some time before her arrest, ‘but a call’.
- Dimensions : 135x215x30
- ISBN : 9782204097062
- Poids : 750 grammes
Avec la collaboration de : Alexandre Nicolsky, Bertrand Jeuffrain, Élisabeth Behr-Sigel, Françoise Lhoest, Gabriel de Comanes, Hélène Arjakovsky-Klépinine, Jérôme Lefert, Nikita Struve, Paul Ladouceur