Light & Strength - Mother Cécile Bruyère, First Abbess of Sainte-Cécile of Solesmes. New - First English translation of the French original, by Dom Guy Marie Oury, O.S.B. Born in 1845, at the age of eleven, providential circumstances brought young Jenny Bruyère under the spiritual tutelage of Dom Prosper Guéranger, abbot of Saint-Pierre of Solesmes. Under his spiritual guidance she blossomed and became, at the age of 25, the foundress and first abbess of the Benedictine abbey of Sainte-Cécile of Solesmes. This biographical work is at once a fascinating account of religious life in post-Revolutionary France, an exposition which brings to light the interior life of a great woman of God and her teachings as a religious superior, and a revealing analysis of a little known dimension of Dom Prosper Guéranger's life and work as Abbot of Saint Pierre of Solesmes. (Book Preview takes up to 15 seconds to load.)