The Woman in the Tower of Constance
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand inside the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes, a circular stone fortress rising from the marshlands of southern...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab.
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand inside the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes, a circular stone fortress rising from the marshlands of southern France. Her crime was simple: she refused to renounce her Protestant faith. The dragon of state persecution had already consumed her brother, Pastor Pierre Durand, who was executed for preaching the gospel. Now the empire turned its fury toward her.…
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