Résumé
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We say ‘widow’ or ‘widower’ when someone has lost their spouse ‘orphan’ when children have lost their parents, but there is no word to describe parents who have lost a child. So when Vincent died, Cécile and Benoît became the ‘orphans’ of their son Vianney and Henry of their biological brother, and the Dominicans of their brother in religion. Vincent was thirty when he died, just after making his solemn vows in the Dominican Order of Preachers. When his mother, Cécile, began confiding her thoughts to a little notebook, which would later become a diary in which she described how she dealt with her son who was then dying from lung cancer, little did she think that one day they would result in a book. Her path became a veritable spiritual quest to understand what had enabled her son to pass so rapidly and inexorably ‘from death to Life’. After a sound education, Vincent had chosen the religious life in order to spread his Faith. How did he manage to meet death with such equanimity? How was his mother, whose maternal feelings were so strong, able to state that despite everything, life is wonderful? Aiming to serve both as a personal account and a source of comfort to those who, like Cécile and Benoït, are mothers and fathers who have lost a child, ‘Orphelins d'un enfant’ attempts to answer these questions.
Auteur
Caractéristiques
Éditeur : Editions du Cerf
Publication : 21 février 2013
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : DRM Adobe (ePub)
Taille(s) : 338 ko (ePub)
Langue(s) : Français
Code(s) CLIL : 3348, 3364
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9782204110440
EAN13 (papier) : 9782204098786
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