Summer of Saints
Paperback
$15.00
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
Donna Langevin's Summer of Saints unflinchingly explores the 1847 typhus epidemic in Montreal where the Grey Nuns attended to the afflicted. This play combines deeply moving poetry, powerful drama, and haunting music.
Will Mother Fitzpatrick send her beloved postulants to the deadly fever sheds? She wrestles with obedience versus conscience, certainty versus doubt, as she moves towards a wider, deeper spirituality of compassion and humanity.
An angry chorus of Montrealers, wanting the fever s...
Will Mother Fitzpatrick send her beloved postulants to the deadly fever sheds? She wrestles with obedience versus conscience, certainty versus doubt, as she moves towards a wider, deeper spirituality of compassion and humanity.
An angry chorus of Montrealers, wanting the fever s...






















