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His Humble Servant - Sister M. Pascalina Lehnert`s Memoirs of Her Years of Service to Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, Paperback / softback Book

His Humble Servant - Sister M. Pascalina Lehnert`s Memoirs of Her Years of Service to Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII Paperback / softback

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This is a personal and insightful portrait of Pope Pius XII, the memories of Sister M.

Pascalina Lehnert, who served as his housekeeper for forty years.

Her book, most of it written just a few months after the Pope’s death, shares insights into the person, the life, and the thinking of Pius XII, from his time as Nuncio in Munich until his death.

Much of Sister’s motivation in writing this work was to correct the many distortions of fact and interpretation regarding this great pope.    This book was a best seller in the original German, as well as in the Italian and French translations.

This is the first edition in English.    These reminiscences were written down at the instructions of Sister’s Superior General, but were not made known to the public until 1982, when it was published in German at the express wishes of Pope John Paul II to publish the work without any changes.

So the work remained a lively, flowing account of memories and anecdotes in a simple, spontaneous style.

It is a powerful and insightful account of Pius’s daily life, his treatment of those around him, and his concern for the upholding of the traditional teaching of the Church in the face of his awesome burden to lead the Church during World War II.

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