Angels of Mercy: An eyewitness account of Civil War and Yellow Fever - Softcover

Mary P. Oakes; Sister Of Mercy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885938128 ISBN 13: 9781885938121

Publisher: Cathedral Foundation Press, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Mary P. Oakes, Sister of Mercy

About this title

About the Author:

Originally from Vicksburg, Mississippi author presently lives in Jackson, Mississippi. She has served as elementary school principal and high school administrator and taught in Mercy schools in Mississippi and Oklahoma. She has been on the adjunct faculy of Hinds Community College in Hinds and Warren counties teaching American Literature. During the last decade, she has been instumental in setting up homelwss shelters for women and children in New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi. Sr. Paulinus serves as a certified chaplain in the chemical dependency and behavriorial health units of St. dominic Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. All proceeds from the book will benefit Mississippi Mercy Ministries with the Poor.

Review:

A powerful testament to the special gift that religious women are to our church, our society, and our history. In this eyewitness historical account of the Civil War and the outbreak of Yellow Fever, readers will get to meet heroes and saints who not only served needs of many in their time but provide inspiratiion and encouragement for the ages to come. -- Daniel Medinger, Associate Publisher, The Catholic Review newspaper, Baltimore, Md.

Superbly edited and annotated by Sr. Mary Paulinus Oakes, R.S.M., this memoir clearly represents the practical zeal that is at the core of original charism of Mother Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy. -- Christopher J. Kauffman, Professor of Church History, Catholic University of America

About this edition

• Publisher: Cathedral Foundation Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1885938128
• ISBN 13: 9781885938121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112