When pretty, well-born Suzanne balked at marrying the man her mother had picked out for her, she was packed off to the famed and saintly Curé d'Ars.* But instead of bringing Suzanne round to her mother's view of things, the curé said: "God has other things for you."
Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South PacificSuzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph...
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