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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458305203321

Autore

Marie de l'Incarnation, me`re, <1599-1672., >

Titolo

From mother to son : the selected letters of Marie De l'incarnation to Claude Martin / / translated by Mary Dunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-938658-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

AAR Religions in Translation

Disciplina

271/.97402

Soggetti

Mothers and sons

Spiritual life - Catholic Church

Mysticism - Catholic Church

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Series; From Mother to SonThe Selected Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation to Claude Martin; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Letters; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marie de l'Incarnation (1599 - 1672), renowned French mystic and founder of the Ursulines in Canada, abandoned her son, Claude Martin, when he was a mere eleven years old to dedicate herself completely to a consecrated religious life. In 1639, Marie migrated to the struggling French colony at Quebec to found the first Ursuline convent in the New World. Over the course of the next thirty-one years, the relationship between Marie and Claude would take shape by means of a trans-Atlantic correspondence in which mother and son shared advice and counsel, concerns and anxieties, and joys and frustrat