The Voice That Broke a Long Silence
In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 1:57-66, 80.
In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling her to service. Her wealthy parents were appalled. Victorian society had already written her future — marriage to a suitable gentleman, a life of drawing rooms and dinner parties. Florence refused. For nearly sixteen years, she studied nursing texts in secret, visited hospitals when her family wasn't watching, and endured their furious disappointment.…
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