Pearl of Great Price
Subtitle: The Life of Mother Matia Skobtsova 1891-1945
Publisher: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: June 1, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780913836859
Subjects: Religious; mat,; Nuns; France; Biography / Autobiography; World War, 1939-1945; Mariëiìa,; Women; Prisoners and prisons, German; Mariia; mat§,; 1891-1945; Biography; Mariia,
Description: Pearl of Great Price is the moving story of Mother Maria Skobtsova, a nun of the Orthodox Church, who was born into a Russian aristocratic home but who died a martyr's death in one of Hitler's concentration camps. In the intervening years, the vicissitudes of life led her through two marriages, childbirth and childrearing, and exile from her homeland - until she became an unconventional nun, devoted to the service of the destitute and the despairing in Nazi-occupied France during WWII. Mother Maria was eventually consigned to Ravensbrück concentration camp because of her support of the Jews in Paris. There she continued to help those around her up until-and even by means of-her own death. Now canonized by the Orthodox Church as St Maria, she demonstrates how to love the image of God in each person, even when surrounded by hatred, undiluted evil, and brutality.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Illustrations; title: Foreword; title: Bibliographical Note; title: Abbreviations; title: Deprivation
label: 1; title: A Straitening of the Way
label: 2; title: Monasticism
label: 3; title: The House at Rue de Lourmel
label: 4; title: Orthodox Action
label: 5; title: The Second Commandment
label: 6; title: Forebodings
label: 7; title: War
label: 8; title: Martyrdom
label: 9; title: Bibliography; title: Index