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Visit the author's website at www.DutchInk.com In 1996, Hilaire Tavenner and a small group of companions went to France from a city in Ohio named for Alsace Lorraine, France. Lorain, Ohio is the home of the Tavenner family for six generations. Her father, Robert Henderson Tavenner was a French Protestant and her mother, Mary Catherine Montgomery was an Irish Catholic. This was not an unusual combination for "the International City" on the shores of Lake Erie, famous for its eighty ethnic and church denominations! Lorain is also well known for its literary giants such as Helen Steiner Rice and Toni Morrison. Dr. Tavenner had been in a convent in upstate New York for almost twenty years and ha...
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My Friendship with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is a book about a unique relationship between someone born in 1774 and the author, born in 1948. It is the adventures of Mary Hilaire (Sally Lynne) Tavenner and the fi rst native born American saint throughout the past forty years. In this book you will learn the life of Mother Seton, read a fi rst hand account of her canonization, as recorded by one of the 14,000 Americans present in Rome for the event. The reader will learn about the process and documented miracles, which helped to bring about her canonization. You will also read behind the scene memoirs of a $3 million docudrama produced by Hollywood on the life of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. The book relays many personal experiences, anecdotes and information unique to this particular collection of stories. If you have ever had a devotion to a particular saint, you will enjoy reading the adventures of Hilaire (Sally) Tavenner and Elizabeth Bayley Seton.
Visit the author's website at www.DutchInk.com During the fall of 2002, (Peru's spring), Dr. Mary Hiliare Tavenner and her sister-in-law, Sadie Gonzales Tavenner, went to visit a nun/friend who teaches English as a Second Language for the Catholic University of Peru. Sr. Joseph Louse Reichlin, OSF, is a member of a religious order whose Motherhouse is located in Syracuse, New York. After more than a year of preparation, the trio sets out to explore the culture, people and history of Peru together. They are fortunate to have well-informed and entertaining guides...Cucha Bravo, Darwin Camacho Paredes and Geraldine Collcardenes, among them. Their exploits include traveling in Lima, a city of mo...
Known for her words of inspiration, Helen Steiner Rice's gift for words continues to touch the lives of millions around the world, and many of her poems are published (formerly) in Gibson Greeting Cards, and (currently) in American Greeting Cards. This is a biography of Helen's life in Lorain, Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio spanning 1900-1981. It also tells of parts of her extraordinary legacy. Although she often experienced a painful persona life-her husband filing bankruptcy and committing suicide three years after their wedding day, Helen was committed to spreading the eternal message of love. Lamp shade designer, advertising manager, book keeper and editor of Gibson Publishing, Helen was a ...
Visit the author's website at www.DutchInk.com After leaving her religious order, in October of 1984, Hilaire had two ambitions: to write a realistic book about convent life and to earn a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. Working full time as a teacher made her realize one of these ambitions would have to wait, so after starting her book, Nun of This and Nun of That, she set it aside for the next eight years until she earned her doctorate. Her novel spans almost ten years of religious life, starting in 1963 when twenty-five young women all enter a convent in Albany, New York. This is a story of all the girls, but particularly three who enter, live, stay-in and leave religious life ...
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