Little Saint (Living Language Series)

In the early 1970s Hannah Green and her husband came upon a small village called Conques curled like a conch shell in the mountains of south-central France. Entranced she returned to this numinous place again and again drawn to the story of the little saint whose spirit fills the lives of the people there. Housed in the villages yellow stone basilica sits the gold reliquary of Sainte Foy who was beheaded in the fourth century for refusing to deny her faith before a Roman consul. Little Saint a book written in ecstasy is at once a moving and passionate tribute to Sainte Foy a lyrical evocation of daily life in Conques and a vivid chronicle of the authors intensely felt spiritual journey.