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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...feel we all owe a debt of gratitude to the saintly Sister Nazarena [April 13], who is dedicating her life in prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

True, Sister Nazarena is a religious and devout person, but when it comes to sainthood, I'll nominate the nuns who teach elementary school any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Sister Nazarena with her asceticism is doing a great service for the whole human race. She puts me in mind of Simeon Stylites the Elder (A.D. 388-459), who sat on top of a soft, pillar for 36 years. The church made a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Indeed Sister Nazarena may be "the most serene person" one could meet. However, is this not easy when one isolates himself from all social responsibility? Sister Nazarena's solution is rather too simple in any age-particularly in a nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...night, long after the other nuns have retired, she stays awake to pray; in her cell she has a "discipline" with the tiny whip that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Nun's Story | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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