She was one of the most beautiful and admired women in France. Her name was Eva Lavariere. Addicted to alcohol and tobacco, she was the lover of several men, including a marquis and a baron. Her life of sin made her utterly miserable. One night, after achieving one of her greatest triumphs in the theater before thousands of spectators, she felt so unhappy for lacking peace in her heart that she threw herself into the river to take her own life.
Fortunately, someone saved her life, and when she confessed to a priest, Christ Jesus restored peace to her soul. The happiness she had not found amid applause and sins, she discovered in a confessional upon feeling forgiven by the Lord. After a life of emptiness, she became Catholic in 1918 and joined the Secular Franciscan Order, taking the name Eva of Jesus.
She died in the odor of sanctity in 1929.
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