Nazarena

Description

In this book, Thomas Matus tells the true story of one woman's struggle to live her extraordinary vocation to a life of total silence, solitude and hiddenness. A gifted musician and ordinary Sunday Catholic, Nazarena, nee Julia Crotta, had a vision of Jesus calling her to the desert while in college in Connecticut. After much searching and numerous attempts to have her unique vocation recognized by the church, she eventually found her "desert" in a small room at the monastery of the Camaldolese Benedictine nuns in Rome. She lived there as an anchoress for forty-five years until her death in 1990. Radical yet traditional, exceptional yet simple, Sister Nazarena had a long and spiritually fruitful ascetic life. Nazarena, an American Anchoress uses excerpts from her own letters of spiritual counseling and material taken from interviews with those who knew her to tell the remarkable story of her life of silence and prayer.

First Sentence

A thousand years ago, in the days when Romuald of Ravenna, father of the Camaldolese Benedictines, was briefly abbot of Sant'Apollinare in Classe and Adalbert of Prague was martyred by Prussian tribes in northern Poland, a family by the name of Crotta already possessed rich farmlands in the valley of the Po.

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Other Editions

• Nazarena: an American anchoressPaulist Press1998-01-01
• NazarenaPaperbackPaulist Press1998-07-01