SONG OF SILENCE - THE JOURNEY OF ST JEANNE JUGAN
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Author: Éloi Leclerc. Translator: Claire Trocmé. 112 pg. PB.
Jeanne Jugan, also known as Sister Mary of the Cross, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in October 2009. Though foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, she was not recognized as such until after her death. Jeanne lived through repeated betrayals, but transformed these trials into a path toward holiness that helped her connect with the suffering of Christ. Read the fascinating spiritual journey of this remarkable saint.
“There is in [Jugan] something so calm, and so holy, that in seeing her I know myself to be in the presence of a superior being. Her words went straight to my heart, so that my eyes, I know not how, filled with tears.” — Charles Dickens, Victorian author and contemporary of Jeanne Jugan
About the author: Éloi Leclerc entered the Franciscan novitiate in Amiens, France. At the age of twenty-two he was drafted into the Compulsory Work Service, which sent French citizens to work in German factories during World War II. Arrested and deported, he lived through the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. A great friend of the woman he affectionately calls “Jeanne,” Father Leclerc confides, “The experience of being stripped and forsaken can lead to utter despair or to a self-emptying and entrusting of one’s life totally into the hands of God, resulting in the grace of interior peace. This is what Jeanne Jugan experienced at the end of her life.”
Jeanne Jugan, also known as Sister Mary of the Cross, was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in October 2009. Though foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, she was not recognized as such until after her death. Jeanne lived through repeated betrayals, but transformed these trials into a path toward holiness that helped her connect with the suffering of Christ. Read the fascinating spiritual journey of this remarkable saint.
“There is in [Jugan] something so calm, and so holy, that in seeing her I know myself to be in the presence of a superior being. Her words went straight to my heart, so that my eyes, I know not how, filled with tears.” — Charles Dickens, Victorian author and contemporary of Jeanne Jugan
About the author: Éloi Leclerc entered the Franciscan novitiate in Amiens, France. At the age of twenty-two he was drafted into the Compulsory Work Service, which sent French citizens to work in German factories during World War II. Arrested and deported, he lived through the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. A great friend of the woman he affectionately calls “Jeanne,” Father Leclerc confides, “The experience of being stripped and forsaken can lead to utter despair or to a self-emptying and entrusting of one’s life totally into the hands of God, resulting in the grace of interior peace. This is what Jeanne Jugan experienced at the end of her life.”
