Elisabeth Leseur Catholic Heroes SJ - Pioneer

SJ - Pioneer

Bertha was subjected to the full horrors of the discrimination and segregation of the Jim Crow Laws

Joseph Bernardin was born in Columbia

Her coming into the Church at a late stage of childhood led her to call herself a “Rocking Horse Catholic” as opposed to a cradle Catholic

Elisabeth Leseur Catholic Heroes SJ - PioneerElisabeth Leseur (1866 1914) Elisabeth Arrighi was born into pampered wealth in Paris and raised as a proper young Catholic girl. It was all very thin, weak, and pro forma, and she married a brilliant young doctor named Felix Leseur, who was also an intellectual atheist. Elisabeth and Felix had a deep and passionate love for each other but were separated by their respective belief and unbelief. Elisabeths weak Catholic faith crumbled before Felixs