Mother Geneviève Gallois began life as an artist in the anticlerical circles of turn-of-the-century Paris. After a spiritual crisis in 1917, she entered a Benedictine convent and dedicated her life to prayer and religious art, but her fiercely independent temperament often made the religious life a genuine struggle.
In her latter years, she began to write, and when one day a fellow nun asked her to draw a picture for the feast of Saint Placid, Mother Geneviève instead produced 104! Thus was born her most celebrated book, The Life of Little Saint Placid. Referred to affectionately as a “comic book for contemplatives” and an “exquisite picture treatise on prayer,” these pages impart a depth of both wisdom and wit amidst the bold linework of her art.
One comes away from the pages of this extraordinary little book with less a feeling that one has learned about the life of Saint Placid, and more with the feeling that one has gained true and lasting insight into the spiritual life.
6" x 9" softcover 114 pages
