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Upon their return to Lynchburg, Van continued teaching history and literature at Lynchburg College. They joined a local congregation and explored their faith further. It was eventually to be tested severely. Davy contracted a virus which attacked her liver, possibly picked up during their years of travel. At the time of her diagnosis in the summer of 1954, Vanauken had just resigned to accept a job offer from his alma mater, Wabash College, but asked Lynchburg to rehire him in order to stay near Davy's doctors, which they did. Tragically, Davy died of her illness soon after, at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg on January 17, 1955.<ref name="harpercollins.com"/><ref>Taylor, Jack "Sheldon Vanauken, RIP". ''This Rock'', vol. 8 no. 2, February 1997.</ref> She was 40 years old, and they had been married for over seventeen years.
A great part of ''A Severe Mercy'' concerns how Van came to grips with losing his beloved wife with the help of his increasing faith and his correspondence with Lewis, who soon was to face the loss of his own terminally ill wife. Vanauken later called the "Shining Barrier" he and Davy had created a "pagan love, invaded by Christ." He never remarried, and eventually converted to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] in 1981.
''A Severe Mercy'' won a [[National Book Award]] in the [[List of winners of the National Book Award#Science, Philosophy and Religion|one-year category Religion/Inspiration]].<ref name=nba1980>
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*''Mercies: Collected Poems'' (1988)
*''The Little Lost Marion and Other Mercies'' (1996)
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