From Our Hearts There is No Distance

The inspirational true story of a 16-year-old American farm girl who sailed to France to open a Catholic religious order in 1919. Mary Margaret Doyle spoke no French and knew nothing of the social, political, and religious challenges facing Europe between world wars. Her Irish American farm family in America at the same time coped with physical and financial hardship during the post-World War I farm crisis that led to the Great Depression. Their daughter, meanwhile, dug vegetables from a frozen