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On September 20, 1954, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout Indian Carmelite nun, goes into labor at the mission hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she has worked for years as a surgical nurse. Her startled colleagues—unaware of her condition—correctly assume that the father is the mission surgeon, Dr. Thomas Stone. The nun dies as her identical twin sons are born, and Dr. Stone, grief-stricken, disappears from the hospital a ...more
On September 20, 1954, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout Indian Carmelite nun, goes into labor at the mission hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she has worked for years as a surgical nurse. Her startled colleagues—unaware of her condition—correctly assume that the father is the mission surgeon, Dr. Thomas Stone. The nun dies as her identical twin sons are born, and Dr. Stone, grief-stricken, disappears from the hospital a ...more
