The winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the age of
fifty, Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to
follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of
Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to
live among drug king pins and petty thieves. She has led many of
them through profound spiritual transformations in which they
turned away from their lives of crime, and has deeply touched the
lives of all who have witnessed the depth of her compassion.
Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the
prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters-the
Servants of the Eleventh Hour--widows and divorced women seeking
new meaning in their lives. "We had never heard a story like hers,"
Jordan and Sullivan write, "a story of such powerful goodness."
Born in Beverly Hills, Clarke was raised around the glamour of
Hollywood and looked like a star herself, a beautiful blonde
reminiscent of Grace Kelly. The choreographer Busby Berkeley
spotted her at a restaurant and offered her a job, but Mary's dream
was to be a happy wife and mother. She raised seven children, but
her two unfulfilling marriages ended in divorce. Then in the late
1960s, in midlife, she began devoting herself to charity work,
realizing she had an extraordinary talent for drumming up donations
for the sick and poor.
On one charity mission across the Mexican border to the
drug-trafficking capitol of Tijuana, she visited La Mesa prison and
experienced an intense feeling that she had found her true life's
work. As she recalls, "I felt like I had come home." Receiving the
blessings of the Catholic Church for her mission, on March 19,
1977, at the age of fifty, she moved into a cell in La Mesa,
sleeping on a bunk with female prisoners above and below her.
Nearly twenty-eight years later she is still living in that cell,
and the remarkable power of her spiritual counseling to the
prisoners has become legendary.
The story of both one woman's profound journey of discovery and
growth and of the deep spiritual awakenings she has called forth in
so many lost souls, The Prison Angel is an astonishing testament to
the powers of personal transformation.
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