At the age of fifty, Mary Clarke left her comfortable life in suburban Los Angeles to follow a spiritual calling to care for the prisoners in one of Mexico's most notorious jails. She actually moved into a cell to live among drug king pins and petty thieves. Donning a nun's habit, she became Mother Antonia, renowned as "the prison angel," and has now organized a new community of sisters, the Servants of the Eleventh Hour, widows and divorced women seeking new meaning in their lives.
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