The Rosary in the Sun

Those skilled in the way of the Rosary can apply each Mystery to their lives, each image in their lives to a Mystery: even their whole life can be seen as one, single Rosary.

Such is the way of Dominica, a young girl from Marseille, torn between her desire to serve the Lord and the poor, and her care for a young man and her love of children. A chance encounter with a poor widower and his son outside a hostel in Lourdes sets her off on a path of joy, of sorrow, of glory: on a Rosary path.

Francis Jammes (1868-1938) was a prolific French author, in poetry and prose, known for his evocations of southwestern France and the Basque Country around the Pyrenees Mountains. After striking up a friendship with poet Paul Claudel, he "converted" to Catholicism in 1905, and a Catholic fervor came to inspire all of his subsequent writing. Little of his writing is available in English, and this is his first work of full-length prose to be published in English translation.