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Book Reviews / Exchange 38 (2009) 183-199 193 Mida Purba, Spirituality in Context: Vincentian Spirituality Actualized by the Batak Sisters of Charity in North Sumatra , Leeuwarden: Discoverybooks 2008. 261 p., ISBN 978-90- 77728-14-7, price xxx yyy On 27 August 2008 Mida Purba, a member of the Roman Catholic Batak Sisters of Char- ity and called Sister Yosephine, defended her dissertation Spirituality in Context: Vincentian Spirituality Actualized by the Batak Sisters of Charity in North Sumatra , at the Department of Spirituality of the Th eological Faculty of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She did her Master in intercultural theology at the same university. Th e congregation of the Sisters of Charity in Batakland, is an autonomous branch of the Dutch Sisters of Charity of Schijndel, who came to Batakland in 1928. Th e French Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) is the main source of the spirituality of the Sisters of Charity of Schijndel, a congregation founded by the diocesan priest Antoon van Erp in 1836 in Schijndel. De Paul’s spirituality was rooted in the context of his time,s ince it was centred around the love of Jesus for the poor. Th e poor Jesus is his inspiration and
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Published: Jan 1, 2009
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