Madre: The Nun Who Was Mother to the Orphans of Honduras
Kathy Martin O'Neil, "Madre: The Nun Who Was Mother to the Orphans of Honduras"
English | ISBN: 1737726300 | 2022 | 292 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1737726300 | 2022 | 292 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
“Children have the right to be happy. So God sent me to help them.” —Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
In Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras, in 1966, a short, plump, middle-aged Catholic nun was hot on the heels of the richest man in the country. Sister María Rosa Leggol, a hospital nurse with a fifth-grade education, had no money, no social standing, no clout. What she did have was the audacity to ask big favors of powerful men and the unwavering conviction that her dream—to rescue, house, and educate street children—was sanctioned by God.
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