Consecrated spirits
Subtitle: a thousand years of spiritual writings by women religious
By: compiled by Felicity Leng
Publisher: Paulist
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780809147908
Subjects: Monastic and religious life of women; Spiritual life; Catholic Church; Devotional literature
Other titles: Thousand years of spiritual writings by women religious; 1000 years of spiritual writings by women religious
Notes: "Originally published in the UK under the title Consecrated Spirits by Canterbury Press of Norwhich."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Visionaries, mystics and contemplatives: Julian of Norwich ; Bd Beatrice of Nazareth ; Marguerite Porete ; Bd Yvette of Huy ; Hadewijch II ; St Gertrude the Great of Helfta ; Bd Angela of Foligno ; St Teresa of Avila ; Bd Anna Katharina Emmerick ; Sr Marie de la Trinité ; Anna van Schurman ; Lucie Christine ; Jessica Powers (Sr Miriam of the Holy Spirit) ; Sr Wendy Beckett; title: Founders, Directors and advisers: St Radegund ; St Clare of Assisi ; St Gertrude the Great of Helfta ; St Teresa of Avila ; Bd Anne of St Bartholomew ; St Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal ; Mary Ward ; St Louise de Marillac ; Mother Cécile Bruyère ; St Thérèse Couderc ; Bd Marie-Louise Trichet ; Bd Maria Elizabetta Hesselblad; title: Mothering, healing and family relations: Julian of Norwich ; St Hildegard of Bingen ; St Catherine dei Ricci ; Sr Maria Celeste ; Sr Marie de l'Incarnation ; St Bernadette of Lourdes ; St Thérèse of Lisieux ; St Mary of the Cross ; Bd Marie de la Passion ; Mother Geneviève Gallois ; Mother Maribel of Wantage; title: Prayer, preaching and mission: Egeria of Spain ; St Catherine of Siena ; St Philippine Duchesne ; Mother Marie-Louise Hartzer & Sr Marie Madeleine ; Mother Cécile Bruyère ; Sr Esther (Emma Caroline Silcock) ; St Maria Skobtsova ; Mother Teresa of Calcutta ; Sr Joan Chittister ; Sr Emmanuelle ; Sr Pia Buxton CJ ; Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson; title: Autobiographers, diarists and chroniclers: Sr Jeanne de Jussie ; Sr Maria Celeste ; Mother Angélique de Saint Jean Arnauld d'Andilly ; Bd Marie de l'Incarnation (Barbe Acarie) ; St Thérèse of Lisieux ; Mother Geneviève Gallois ; Sr Kathleen Bryant; title: Community, politics and solidarity: Hroswitha ; Mechtild of Magdeburg ; Mother Walburg Schefflerin von Eichstätt ; St Teresa of Avila ; Sr Anne de Marquets ; Sr Juana Inés de la Cruz ; Mother Marie de l'Incarnation (Marie Guyard) ; St Thérèse of Lisieux ; Jessica Powers (Sr Miriam of the Holy Spirit) ; Mother Maribel of Wantage ; Sr Sandra Schneiders ; Sr Martha Zechmeister-Machhart ; Sr Helen Prejean ; Sr Marian O'Sullivan; title: Biographies and bibliographies; title: General works on women religious.