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The Prison Angel [sound recording] / Mary Jordan

Jordan, Mary, 1960- (Author, Narrator.). Sullivan, Kevin, 1959- (Author, Narrator.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781705067604
  • Physical Description: 6 Discs (7 hours)
  • Edition: unabridged
  • Publisher: [Unknown] Recorded Books, 2022
Subject:
Women
Religions
Mexico
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)
Genre:
Audiobooks

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library CD BIO JORDAN (Text) 36015000510194 Adult Audiobook Available -
Macon County Public Library CDBOOK 271.97 J (Text) 39493109295818 Adult Audiobook Available -

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