The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a women's monasteryby Constantina R. Palmer Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor. Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent pilgrimages to a women's monastery in Greece and absorbs the nuns' particular approach to their spiritual life. If you're a woman who's read of Mount Athos and longed to partake of its grace filled atmosphere, this book is for you. Men who wish to understand how women's spirituality

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None of them spent all their life on this continent but they left a legacy on these shores that endures to this day and will surely continue

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Valentin has had innumerable experiences of God’s mercy and has met a great many others who have experienced God in profound and at times miraculous ways