Madeleine Delbrel (d 10/13/1964), daughter of a French railroad worker, underwent a deep conversion at 24 and dedicated her life to God--not as a nun, but in the world, in solidarity with the "ordinary people of the streets... This street, this world...is our place of holiness."
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With a group of friends she moved to a working-class city near Paris, a stronghold of the Communist Party, where they became "missionaries without a boat"--not crossing the sea but the borders of faith to bear witness to the gospel in friendship and solidarity.
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Her spirituality was based on her Prayer of the Agenda: an awareness of the presence of God in all the ordinary activities of life. "Each tiny act is an extraordinary event in which heaven is given to us, in which we are able to give heaven to others."
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