Mariam Baouardy was born on 5 January 1846, in Abellin, a modest village
on a hill in Galilee, halfway between Nazareth and Haifa. She was a contemporary
of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, who was 3 years old when Mariam died.
There was a difference of 27 years between them, (as between Saint
Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross).
Both of them were to transmit to us the same gospel message of spiritual
childhood: of a humility full of love, of complete confidence, of bold surrender
into the hands of our Father in Heaven. But each followed different paths,
carrying the mark of the world that shaped them: the West for Therese, the
Orient for Mariam.
