Dame Maria Boulding: nun and author | Times Online Obituary

What a strong, powerful woman. h/t Clare.

Dame Maria Boulding: nun and author | Times Online Obituary: "The 4th-century Desert Father Evagrius defines a monk as one who is separated from all, yet joined to all. Dame Maria Boulding, the enclosed Benedictine nun whose life and writings have touched thousands across the globe, epitomised this monastic ideal. There was something of the Desert Elder in her: short, spare and vigorous, single-minded in her search for truth, and uncompromising, she could look rather forbidding until a radiant smile transformed her whole being."