Beautiful Holiness: A Spiritual Journey with Blessed Conchita to the Heart of Jesus

Here is the fascinating life and compelling spirituality of María Concepción Cabrera de Armida (1862–1937), now Blessed Conchita, presented for the first time in English. This saintly Mexican wife and mother of nine children experienced a “mystical life . . . comparable to that of St. Teresa of Avila,” according to Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Papal Household. Author Kathleen Beckman shows how Blessed Conchita — who founded a religious community for women and one for men and published forty-six books and sixty-six diary volumes — modeled the heroic fortitude you need to live out your vocation. Her heroic life experience and mystical writings show how to dispose yourself for deep conversion and transformation in Christ.   Stirring excerpts from Blessed Conchita’s writings reveal her great love and her profound spiritual insights for priests, religious, and married people alike. Passages describing Jesus’ personal and prophetic words to Blessed Conchita and her compelli