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Article: A fool for Christ: Mother Maria Skobtsova's faith was passionate, severe, even insane.(Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings)(Book Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- February 6, 2004
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MOTHER MARIA SKOBTSOVA: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS Orbis, 192 pages, $15
When, during Great Lent of 1932, Metropolitan Evlogii received the monastic vows of Elisaveta Skobtsova at the church of St. Serge Institute in Paris, many were scandalized. After all, this woman had been twice divorced, had an illegitimate child by another man, had leftist political sympathies and was an original by any standard. At her profession she took the name of Maria in memory of St. Mary of Egypt, a prostitute who became a hermit and extreme ascetic. As a religious, Mother Maria continued to scandalize. Her "angelic habit" was usually stained with grease from the kitchen and paint from her ...