A Lily of the Cloister - Jeann-Marie Castang or Sister Marie-Celine of the Presentation, who died in the odor of sanctity at the age of nineteen, in the Monastery of the poor Clares of Bordeaux-Talence, France, now at Mons Belgium. |
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A Lily of the Cloister - Jeann-Marie Castang or Sister Marie-Celine of the Presentation, who died in the odor of sanctity at the age of nineteen, in the Monastery of the poor Clares of Bordeaux-Talence, France, now at Mons Belgium.
1 vol. in-12 br., b.&w. ill., Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd., London, 1923, 236 pp.Commentaire : A very good copy (cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a clean and nice copy) of this biography of Sister Marie-Céline de la Présentation (1878-1897), born Jeanne Germaine Castang. She was admitted into the Community of the Poor Clares at Talence, near Bordeaux, on June 12th, 1896 and died of turbeculosis a few monthes later. An aura of holiness surrounded her durign the end of her life. After her death, her burial place in Talence became a pilgrimage destination. Since 2006, her remains rest in the Parish Church of Nojals, near Bergerac (Perigord). Her beatification was celebrated in Bordeaux, in 2007.
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