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From Our Hearts There is No Distance: The True Story of an American Teenager Who Joined a Rural French Convent Between World Wars and Grew Closer to G

From Our Hearts There is No Distance: The True Story of an American Teenager Who Joined a Rural French Convent Between World Wars and Grew Closer to G

Doyle, Daniel

Paperback

Biographies GeneralReligion General General World History

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN13: 9798991878722
Publisher: Terrisat LLC
Published: Aug 11 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The inspirational true story of a 16-year-old American farm girl who sailed to France to open a Catholic religious order in 1919.

Mary Margaret Doyle spoke no French and knew nothing of the social, political, and religious challenges facing Europe between world wars. Her Irish American farm family in America at the same time coped with physical and financial hardship during the post-World War I farm crisis that led to the Great Depression. Their daughter, meanwhile, dug vegetables from a frozen abandoned garden to survive in a deserted monastery in Provins, France. Mary Margaret witnessed her new order, the Last Apostles of the Sacred Heart, struggle to feed themselves, to make the ancient stone monastery into a livable home for the sisterhood, to deal with unsympathetic bishops, and to avoid the French government's systematic persecution of Christians.

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