Nun from Medjugorje shrine comes to Norwood, Monroe

11/17/2006

Sister Emmanuel Maillard, a French nun who now serves at the Medjugorje shrine in Bosnia, will be at the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in Norwood, Ohio, at 6 p.m. tomorrow and the Knights of Columbus Hall in Monroe, Mich., at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Sister Emmanuel studied theology at the Sorbonne in Paris and joined the Beatitudes Community in 1976. She initiated a branch of the Beatitudes Community at Medjugorje in 1989.

She has written five books about Medjugorje that have been translated into 22 languages and she travels the world speaking about the shrine s messages and miracles.