Essay on mother veronica
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She was born as Sophie Leeves in 1823 in Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Henry Daniel Leeves, an Anglican chaplain to the British Embassy there, and to Sophia Mary Haultain,[1] the daughter of a Colonel in the British army.
When Leeves was in her teens a change came over her. She spent long hours in prayers. "Easter Tuesday ended in a dark night" she wrote. "I blew out the last candles. The house was still. Suddenly a clear but soft voice broke the stillness and I heard these words distinctly 'My peace I leave you; My peace I give you'. Then all was still again, the night as well as my heart
Veronica left an Autobiography, a large number of letters and some Regulations for the nuns of the third order of St Teresa.
Carmel in India, London, Burns and Oates, 1895 (new edition at Mangalore, 1964).
Vie merveilleuse de Sœur Marie de Jésus crucifié, Montpellier, 1903.
Leeves was received into the Catholic Church on 2 February 1850 in Malta. The following year, she went to France where she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, which had been founded in 1836 by Emily de Vialar. After completing the novitiate, she was professed as a member of the congregation on 14 September 1851 and received the name Sister Mary Veronica of the Passion.