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Tag: Joan of the Cross
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Jeanne Delanoue (Joan of the Cross)
St Jeanne (1666 – 1736) was born the youngest of twelve children in Saumur, France. Her father was a draper and her mother ran a shop selling religious objects to pilgrims on their way to a local Blessed Virgin Mary Shrine. At 25, St Jeanne took over the running of her mother’s business, until one…