Marie Durand and the Word Carved in Stone
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand in the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes for one crime: she was a Huguenot who refused to...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Peter 1:3-9.
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand in the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes for one crime: she was a Huguenot who refused to renounce her Protestant faith. The round stone fortress, ringed by marshland and mosquitoes, became her home for the next thirty-eight years. Dozens of women shared that tower over the decades. Some recanted and walked free.…
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