Lorena Larsen

A figure from Saints — No Unhallowed Hand, the second volume of the Church’s narrative history, where her story functions as one of the book’s depictions of the human cost of plural marriage during the antipolygamy crusade. Kyle’s notes frame her “Abraham-and-Isaac dark night” as an emblem of Faith under extreme strain — set alongside B.H. Roberts’s inability to raise his hand to sustain the Manifesto as the personal price of the Church’s temporal-vs-spiritual calculus under Wilford Woodruff. She appears in the volume’s people roster as one of the individual lives (Jane Manning James is the other named there) carrying the weight of the era’s institutional decisions.

Where this appears

• Saints — No Unhallowed Hand — her “Abraham-and-Isaac dark night” cited as the human cost of plural marriage and the Manifesto, an exemplar of faith tested to the breaking point.