Wisdom from Sigrid Undset

 
 
 

What has put it into people’s heads that in this dangerous life of ours the most important thing of all, our religion, should be free from danger?

—Sigrid Undset

quoted in Fr. Aidan Nichols’ book, Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts

 

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ACCLAIMED NOVELIST, COURAGEOUS CATHOLIC

A brilliant Norwegian novelist, Sigrid Undset is best known for her trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter, set in medieval Norway. Fr. Aiden Nichols, O.P. unpacks the life of Sigrid Undset from a profoundly Christian perspective and highlights her conversion to Catholicism and how her faith helped shape her creative genius.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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