* A Short Life of Mary of the Passion, by Marie Thérèse de Maleissye, fmm, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 1996.
A short biography, aimed at making known to an ever increasing circle of readers, the turbulent life of  an exceptional person, Mary of the Passion, who, at the end of the 19th century placed at the service of the Church and society the years and days of her life. In her, were harmonised a rich temperamental nature, a strongly willed director, a love ever inflamed by the Holy Spirit. Mary of the Passion placed her activity and the most valuable  fruit which flowed from it, a missionary congregation, the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in the setting of the Church of her time.
This edition exists in French, English, Spanish and Italian, German, Slovene, Croat, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tamil, Hindi and Japanese.

* Hélène de Chappotin and the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, by Marcel Launay de University de Nantes, Cerf 2001

Written by a historian, this book offers a deepening of the socio-cultural, ecclesial and political context of the XIX century, therefore allowing the originality and the scope of her personality, her spirituality and her work to be understood.  

This edition exists in French, Spanish, Italian and Vietnamese.

Mary of the Passion, Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, an illustrated history – inspired by the book of  Marie Thérèse de Maleissye, fmm, A Short Life of Mary of the Passion, DescLée de Brouwer, Paris 1996.

Illustrations : Jordi Longaron

This edition exists in French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Vietnamese.

In order to give life - a community that delivered itself up to death, by Justina Fanego, fmm,  (martyrs canonised in 2000), sepia 2000

 This book presents the life of seven Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, put to death for their faith in Christ, with several Bishops, priests, seminarians and laity, in faraway China.

This edition exists in French English, Spanish, Polish, Korean and Vietnamese.

* "That they may have life" – The Martyrs of Taiyan-fu and the FMM, Rome 2000

This booklet was edited in the  jubilee Year 2000, the year of the canonisation, as a memorial of the centenary of the death of the seven young sisters killed on 9^th July 1900 in China. What meaning does it have for our life today to look at these deaths of a  yesterday long past?

This edition exists in French, English, Spanish and Italian.

* The Descent to the Heights, by Paolo dal Pra

In order to discover Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta, a young Franciscan Missionary of Mary, a witness of the tenderness of God, who placed herself totally in the Father's hands  and who, by this has still something to say to the youth of today and tomorrow.

This edition only exists in Italian.

139 pages Euro 7.00

* Fifteen Days of Prayer with Mary of the Passion, by Marie Thérèse de Maleissye, fmm, Nouvelle Cité, 1999

This book follows an itinerary of 15 stages so as to come closer to the spirituality, in her century, of Hélène de Chappotin, the Foundress of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. A life consecrated to God and to the missions of India and throughout the world, guided by the love of God and of the poor and by this transparent intelligence, the gift of the Holy Spirit , which enabled her to see things in their true reality so that she saw them with the eyes of God.

This edition exists in French, English, Spanish and Italian.

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