Patricia St. John

Patricia Mary St. John
Born	1919 Southampton, England
Died	1993 England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Missionary nurse, Writer, Missionary, Relief Worker
Website
http://patriciastjohn.org.uk/

Patricia Mary St. John (1919–1993) was an English writer. She worked most of her life as a missionary nurse in Morocco. Although at first she worked with her brother in the main foreign hospital, she later spent four years manning a village clinic in a more remote area.

Contents 1 Early years 2 Mission work 3 Works 3.1 Biographical 3.2 Fictional 3.3 Misc 4 Notes

Early years

Her parents, Harry and Ella St. John, had been missionaries to South America for two years. Patricia was born, the third of five children, just after they arrived back in England.^[1]

From her memories of a year lived in alpine Switzerland she wrote her second book, Treasures of the Snow.

Mission work

After finishing high school she became a nurse during World War II, and after the War ended was a house mother at her aunt's boarding school for a couple of years before she joined her brother, Farnham, in Tangiers, Morocco, where he was medical director of a Missions hospital.

Works

Biographical

• Man of Two Worlds: The Life of Ken Moynagh, Henry E Walter Ltd (1976) (bio of Ken Moynagh)
• R Hudson Pope: A Biography, Patricia M St John, Scripture Union, 1967 (bio of R. Hudson Pope)
• Until the Day Breaks: The Life and Work of Lilias Trotter, Pioneer Missionary to Muslim North Africa, OM Publishing, (1990) (bio of Lilias Trotter)
• Harold St. John, Loizeaux Brothers; 2d ed edition (1962) (bio of her father, Harold "Harry" St. John)
• Patricia St. John Tells Her Own Story, OM Publishing (1995) (Also published as "An Ordinary Woman's Extraordinary Faith") (autobiography)

Fictional

• Treasures of the Snow, Scripture Union Publishing (Sep 1980)
• The Tanglewood’s Secret, Scripture Union (1967)
• Rainbow Garden, Moody Press (Jul 1995)
• The Secret at Pheasant Cottage, Moody Press (Jul 1995)
• Star Of Light, Moody Press (Jul 1995)
• Where The River Begins, Victor Books (Mar 1987)
• Three Go Searching, Moody Press, (Jul 1995)
• The Secret Of The Fourth Candle, Moody Press (June 1981)
• Stories to Share, Shaw (March 7, 2000)
• Nothing Else Matters, Scripture Union (May 2007) (also published as: If You Love Me: A Story of Forgiveness)
• The Runaway, Moody Publishers (February 8, 1985) (Also published as: The Victor)
• I Needed A Neighbor, Scripture Union Publishing (Sep 1987) (Also published as: A Courageous Journey)
• Twice Freed, Moody Publishers (1 Jan 1987)
• The Secret Boat, Marshall Pickering (Nov 1982)

Misc

• Verses' London, CSSM, 1953
• Breath of Life: The Story of the Ruanda Mission, London: Norfolk Press, 1971
• Would You Believe It? - You Can Grow to Know God, Marshall Pickering (Aug 1983)
• Prayer Is An Adventure, Christian Focus Publications (March 2004)
• Missing the Way: They Could Not Enter In (How Israel Missed God's Rest), Harvey Christian Publishers (1999)
• A Missionary Muses On The Creed, Pickering And Inglis (1966) (recently published as:Life Everlasting)
• Young Person's Guide To Knowing God, Christian Focus (2000), Originally published in 1983 by Pickering and Ingals.

Notes

Persondata
Name	St. John, Patricia
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1919
Place of birth	Southampton, England
Date of death	1993
Place of death	England