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001			65209220
003			OCoLC
005			20250624142645.0
007			ta
008			091209s2006 nyu b 000 0aeng d
020			_a1582433488 : _c$24.00
024	3		_a9781582433486
040			_aOCO _cOCO _dBAKER _dAJM
049			_aWZWW
100	1		_aBissell, Beryl Singleton. _920327
245	1	4	_aThe scent of God : _ba memoir / _cBeryl Singleton Bissell.
260			_aNew York : _bCounterpoint, _cc2006.
300			_aviii, 294 p. _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291)
520			_aAs a teenager, Beryl Bissell entered a cloistered monastery of the Poor Clares in New Jersey, following her passion and believing God had called her to this way of life. After fifteen years in the convent, enduring periods of bliss as well as inner torment and obsessive disorders, she is called to Puerto Rico to care for her ailing father. There she meets and falls in love with handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio. For the next three years, Beryl struggles to reconcile her spiritual longing with human desire while maintaining a chaste and loving relationship with Vittorio. Throughout the events that follow, the author tells a powerful story of love, death, guilt, and redemption--a pilgrimage that reaches beyond dogma to personal truth and evokes a transformation that changes not only Beryl, but the lives of those around her.
600	1	0	_aBissell, Beryl Singleton. _920327
650		0	_aNuns _zUnited States _vBiography. _920328
651			_aSpirituality _vBiography _920329
651			_aCatholic _vBiography _920330
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c2928 _d2928