The Gaia Foundation 2007 Humanitarian Award,
Honoree: Mother Antonia, The Prison Angel.

The Antelope Valley Women’s Conference is pleased to present its 2007 “Looking Beyond the Ordinary” award to the remarkable, Mary Clarke, the mother of seven children, who "began to feel she should be contributing somehow to something larger.” Mary Clarke is now known as Mother Antonia, The Prison Angel.

Appropriately, the late President Ronald Reagan wrote to our award recipient saying he was amazed at her “devotion to a calling beyond the ordinary.”

Pulitzer-prize winning authors, Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, chronicled Mary Clarke’s story in a book Mother Antonia, visitor of prisoners: a Beverly Hills mother transformed her life to serve those in jail.Click on the highlighted link to get your copy from  Amazon.com

"In March 1978, Mother Antonia sold her home and moved into the prison permanently. She spent a few months in a bunk bed in the women's cell-block, and then the warden furnished her with her own cell.”

Mother Antonia has dedicated her life to serving the murderers, rapists, drug lords, thieves and other poor suffering inmates housed at La Mesa Penitentiary. She says she does it “for the love of God and for the love of you all!" With compassion, Mother Antonia ministers to the prisoners’ physical and spiritual needs and she also ministers to the guards & the police of Tijuana.

 

 

 

Visit the online store to get a CD of Mother Antonia's presentation at the conference.
 

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TESTIMONIALS:
~Most interesting: Mother Antonia's talk." ~Jamie Cookson, Program Analyst, Edwards AFB~