Sister Emmanuelle: Life's Secret, Pierre Lunel

After a career as a teaching nun overseas, and two decades spent in the Cairo slums among the ragpickers, Sister Emmanuelle, the most admired and beloved Frenchwoman of our contemporaries, embarked on a third life, which is less known. Pierre Lunel accompanied her to Callian, in Provence, to her community. He followed her wherever she deployed her tireless energy, with the homeless in Fréjus and elsewhere, in prisons, and speaking to young people, whom she particularly enjoys addressing. He watched her live, had long conversations with her, and interviewed her loved ones, as well as the leaders of the Association des Amis de Sœur Emmanuelle, which continues her work. This extensive report, at the heart of generosity and human distress, paints a faithful, moving, impertinent, and humorous portrait of an old woman brimming with vitality, humor, and joy of life, discovering a France where she had not lived for a long time. Sister Emmanuelle looks at misery with lucid compassion and gives us a wonderful lesson in optimism, happiness, and faith in humanity.

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