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The Cruelest of All Mothers - Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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The Cruelest of All Mothers - Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: Catholic Practice in North America
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In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline
convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude,
against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie
concluded, "God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him
therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully." Claude
organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for
his mother's return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to
Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she
opened the first school for Native American girls, translated
catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen
years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World.
She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and
intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve
God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation
of Marie de l'Incarnation's decision to abandon Claude for
religious life. Complicating Marie's own explication of the
abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and
in submission to God's will, the book situates the event against
the background of early modern French family life, the
marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and
seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded
in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers
offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.
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