The Word Among Us

Lent 2007 Issue

An Unexpected Healing from a New Friend

My Mother and St. Marguerite dYouville

By: Adèle LeBlanc*

Every now and again, God’s mercy touches a person in a way that cries out to be shared with others. My mother, Adeline Lapierre, had an experience like this and told about it often.

From Minor to Major. Her story began on the big farm where I grew up, on Cap-aux-Meules, one of Canada’s remote Magdalene Islands in...

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