Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova, 1891-1945

London; New York: Darton, Longman & Todd ; St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1982. Revised Edition. xv, 160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 22 cm Paperback. ISBN: 0232515409; 0913836850

"Pearl of Great Price is the remarkable and moving sotry of Mother Maria Skobtsova, a nun of the Orthodox Church. Born into a wealthy Russian ome in 1981, she died a martyr's death in one of Hitler's concentration camps in 1945, during the last days of World War II. The intervening years saw her an emigre in Paris, devoting herself to the service of those in need, abandoning all personal security and comfort in the process." --Back cover.

Contents: Deprivation. A straitening of the way. Monasticism. The house at Rue de Lourmel. Orthodox Action. The Second Commandment. Forebodings. War. Martyrdom. Notes: Revised edition of: One of great price. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965; and based on Matʹ Marii︠a︡, 1980.