At Sister Anna's Feet: An Old Nun and a Young Nun

By Eileen O'Toole

Spurred on by her Irish Catholic upbringing in 1950s, Eileen Tegins decided to enter the convent and
become a nun at the young age of seventeen. Almost immediately, she ran smack up against rules,
regulations, and arcane practices that ran counter to her free-spirited nature. Deciding this life was
not for her she tried to esca

• Language: English
• Publisher: Global Summit House
• Release date: Mar 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648265204

Eileen O'Toole

At Sister Anna's Feet narrates Eileen O'Toole's seventeen years behind the walls of a convent where she worked with the poor in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Ocean Hill-Brownsville, in Brooklyn, New York. Now, she lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband.

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