The Spirit Set Me Free (Paulist Press, 2004) is a unique and profoundly moving book that presents the astonishing stories of 55 people who discovered what they most wanted in a place where they least expected to find it -- prison. St. Louis Vincentian Frederick Hermann has collected the real stories of people convicted of serious (and, in many cases, heinous) crimes. These convicted murderers, thieves, rapists, prostitutes, and drug dealers each discovered -- in the darkest pit of despair -- a deep and abiding relationship with God so profound that their accounts can serve as a model for transforming our own lives.
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