The Practice of the Presence of God

This little book contains the Conversations and Letters of one Nicholas Herman of Lorraine, lowly born and unlearned man; who, after having been a soldier and a foot-man, was admitted a lay-brother among the Carmelites Dechausses (bare-footed) at Paris in 1666, where he served in the kitchen of the community. He was afterwards known by the name of Brother Lawrence. He died in February 1691, at the advanced age of eighty, after a life the true saintliness of which can be well realized from these collected Conversations and Letters.