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Stephen J. C. Andes is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the author of¿
The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940.
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List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Nota Bene, Dear Reader
Prologue:
De te fabula narraturPart 1. The Mysterious Sofía
1. Days of the Dead
2. The Sophie Letters
3. Miss del Valle
4. The Mastermind
Interlude: Tere Huidobro
Part 2. A Family Romance
5. Little Flowers
6. Sofía’s Belle Époque
7. Vocation
8. Respectable Telephone Operator
9. Preparing the Future
Interlude: Family Albums
Part 3. Mexican Odyssey
10. The Catacombs
11. The Voyage
12. The Test
13. Gasparri’s Parrots
14. A Long, Hot Roman Summer
15. The Return
16. The Peace
Interlude:
Las viejitasPart 4. A Woman Alone
17. Out of the Shadows
18. The New Woman
19. Resistance
20.
Les femmes internationales21. Terrible Beasts
22. Winter in the City of Light
23. Doubt
24. Lourdes
25. The Road to Warsaw
26. Borders
27. Bridges
Interlude: Walls
Part 5. Catholic Vagabond
28. Miss del Valle Goes to Washington
29. The Plan
30. The Deception of Miss Duffy
31. Consider the Lobster
32. Golden Hour of the Little Flower
33. On the Road
34.
La patria Calls
Postlude: Day’s End
Matins: A Few Days After
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Stephen J. C. Andes is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. He is the author of
The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920–1940.
Summary
Who was the “Mysterious Sofía” whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? Stephen Andes uses the story of Sofía del Valle to tell the history of Catholicism's global shift from north to south and the importance of women to Catholic survival and change.
