Sr. Sophie de Jésus of the Missionaries of Mary celebrates the feast of the Sacred Heart in June 2020 with some of girls at the School of Life, a residential program that she founded in the Philippines in 2000 for girls ages 14 to 21 to learn life skills and overcome abuse and other issues. (Courtesy of ACAY)
To this day, Sr. Sophie Renoux can hear the seaman s voice in her ears.
She was with a friend on a tour of New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific, in her first years as a missionary. As she wrote in her 2015 book,