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Love Letters to My Husband (Saints and Holy People)
by Gianna Beretta Molla
from Pauline Books & Media
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Holy valor in everyday life: Letters of love and marriage. 
The love letters of St. Gianna Beretta Molla and her husband, Pietro, are very engaging in their offering of mini geographic profiles of their environment--Ponte Nuovo and Courmayeur--as well the workings of a genuinely healthy and sincere Catholic-Christian oriented marriage. Just a brief insight on the type of woman and wife that Gianna hungered to be is cited by her own example in the Book of Porverbs 31:10-31--"I often meditate on the text [assoicated with] St. Anne: 'A strong woman, who will find her?... more info
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Interesting--if protracted--snapshot of a holy relationship 
Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla once wrote:
"One should not enter into marriage without knowing how to love. To love means to desire your own and your beloved's perfection, to overcome your own selfishness. Love must be total, full, complete, regulated by the law of God, and must last for all eternity in heaven" (109).
This book contains dozens of letters exchanged between Gianna and her husband Pietro over the course of Gianna's lifetime (1922-1962), as the couple strives valiantly to work out this... more info
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