They Called Her the Baroness: The Life of Catherine De Hueck Doherty [Paperback]

Lorene Hanley Duquin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 4, 1995

Born into the luxury of Russian nobility, condemned to death during the Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine de Hueck Doherty remains an enigma ten years after her death.This is the story of the foundress of the Friendship & Madonna Houses throughout the world.

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A book well worth reading, but be aware: once you start it you will be glued to its pages until you finish. -- Reta Lienhardt, The Bread of Life

In every century there are a few individuals whose lives boggle the imagination. Catherine de Hueck Doherty was such a person. Her life is now carefully recorded with professional objectivity. Im sure youll find that she led an extraordinary life, one filled with miracles of grace and love. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. --Fr. John Catoir of the Christophers

About the Author

Lorene Hanley Duquin, wife and mother of four, has been a freelance writer since 1976. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, McCall's, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, Catholic Digest, Our Sunday Visitor and other publications. Author of several booklets and anthologies, including "Could You Ever Come Back to the Catholic Church?" and "Could You Ever Become a Catholic Priest?", she has also written for radio and TV.

Product Details

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Alba House (December 4, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818908270
• ISBN-13: 978-0818908279
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,159,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorene Hanley Duquin is a Catholic author and lecturer, who has worked in parishes and on a diocesan level. She is currently the coordinator of Come and See, a broad-based evangelization outreach in the Diocese of Buffalo and a member of the Diocesan Evangelization Advisory Board. She has been active in ministry to alienated Catholics since 1992.

She has conducted lectures and workshops on a variety of evangelization and stewardship topics in parishes and at national and diocesan conferences in the United States and Canada. Her articles have appeared in a variety of secular and Catholic publications.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The extraordinary story of the "Dorothy Day of Canada", September 8, 2011

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This review is from: They Called Her the Baroness: The Life of Catherine De Hueck Doherty (Hardcover)

I keep coming back to this book and never tire of learning
more about the beautiful Russian noblewoman who emigrated to
North America after the Russian revolution. She founded the
Friendship Houses in America -- forerunners of the civil rights
movement -- and eventually made her way to Canada to found
the Madonna Houses of charity throughout the world. Considered a saint
by some and a charlatan by others, her story of a miserable marriage
followed by divorce, single motherhood, a romantic marriage at
midlife, and her developing contemplative life in old age holds
many lessons for all of us. This is a popular-style biography with
substance -- highly recommended!