About the book: Marthe Robin (1902-1981) was physically incapacitated, bed-ridden and blind for most of her life; yet this physical suffering did not prevent her from living a life of heroic virtue, one of service to the missions, prisoners, the poor and retreatants throughout the world.
Her lifelong fast, constant prayers, and meditations led to startling visions that reflected the values and challenges of the Church in her time.
As a stigmatist, she was revered by the people of the French countryside and by numerous members of the clergy as well, and her funeral in 1981 drew immense crowds.
This book, Marthe Robin: The Cross and The Joy (1983), should especially appeal to those interested in the other stigmatists of our century such as Padre Pio, Therese Neumann and Adrienne von Speyr.
Always unsettling, inevitably controversial and, for many, profoundly inspirational, the stigmatists form a unique and rare element in the varied and complex religious and spiritual scene.
Currently, Marthe Robin: The Cross and The Joy (1983) can be purchased 'used' in various forms from Amazon (USA and UK) and eBay.
Marthe Robin: The Cross and The Joy (1983) is translated from the French by Clare Will Faulhaber.
About the author: Raymond Peyret, a Valence priest and editor of the Catholic weekly of Drome, Peuple Libre (A Free People), became interested in Marthe Robin while covering her extraordinary funeral. Though he lived just twenty-five miles from Marthe Robin and had heard about her from his youth, by nature he was little inclined towards private visions and was not interested in esoteric spirituality. Yet, when he investigated first hand the life of this woman, he became completely won over by her and felt compelled to write this book.
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