Poustinia Format:Paperback - $19.95 French: le desert au coeur

French: le desert au coeur des villes

Created as a Christmas card for Madonna House in the late 1960s by the famous Canadian painter

because beauty teaches

as the holy fools of Catherine’s Russian childhood were called

[These] “stories are true in that their message is true

Poustinia Format:Paperback - $19.95 French: le desert au coeur50 years of Poustinia Poustinia is the word for desert in Russian. In Eastern Christian spirituality, it refers to a place one goes to encounter, in silence, solitude, and prayer, the God who dwells within the human heart. Now, in this best selling spiritual classic, Catherine Doherty presents the concept of poustinia to Western Christians hungry for the reality of Christ in his Word and in their hearts Published 50 years ago (1975) and now part of