mother

"My mother was the one, who had the largest influence on me, and she still speaks to me with authority, which deeply penetrates me" (NQT XII(1897, 72), remembers Fr. Dehon about his mother in 1894.
From her, and at her side, he learns to pray, with her he goes to church, she is at the beginning of his first religious memories, she inspires him to Sacred Heart devotion, to a Marian spirit and the admiration of St. Joseph, the saints of her childhood also accompany Leo Dehon. He himself describes the special kind of educational process: "My mother's beautiful soul somewhat passed into my own" (NHV I/6v).
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