[PDF] Pilgrim Among The Shadows eBook

Author : Boris Pahor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A compelling Holocaust memoir by a concentration camp survivor, who returns, twenty years later, to recollect the horror.

Author : Boris Pahor
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1838852301

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Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him: the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor’s stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face of the utter brutality of the camps – and coming to terms with the guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.

Author : Jason Wallace
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823426904

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Twelve-year-old Robert Jacklin comes face-to-face with bigotry, racism, and brutality when he is uprooted from England and moves to Zimbabwe with his family. Robert is enrolled in one of the country's most elite boys' boarding schools. Newly integrated, the school is a microcosm of the horrible problems faced by the struggling new country in the wake of a bloody civil war. The white boys want their old country back and torment the black Africans. Robert must make careful alliances. His decision to join the ranks of the more powerful white boys has a devastating effect on his conscience and emerging manhood.

Author : Stephen Smith
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781541228634

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This is a story about pilgrimage, a practice found in every faith tradition, since the first spark of human consciousness. Pilgrimage endures because, perennially, it charts the trajectory in the mystery in and between life and death, beginnings and ends, mortality and eternity.Colin Harpswell, the protagonist of the novel, is in his heart a pilgrim, an itinerant seeker of a place of belonging. The arc of his life moves him from the wild zeal of fundamentalism to the sacred order of priests to the darknight of the soul. In all of this, from the Heartland to Boston to India, immersed in the cultural, political, and spiritual cataclysms of his generation, in his dreams and conscious reality, in joy and despair, blessing and loss, his journey brings him to safe lodging and peace at the last.

Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0735225249

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From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts "Egan draws us in, making us feel frozen in the snow-covered Alps, joyful in valleys of trees with low-hanging fruit, skeptical of the relics of embalmed saints and hopeful for the healing of his encrusted toes, so worn and weathered from their walk."--The Washington Post Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity to explore the religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims and by some of the towering figures of the faith--Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Martin Luther. The goal: walking to St. Peter's Square, in hopes of meeting the galvanizing pope who is struggling to hold together the church through the worst crisis in half a millennium. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.

Author : Rembert Weakland
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802863825

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For many people, the name of Archbishop Rembert Weakland brings to mind only connotations of scandal the titillating tale of a prominent priest disgraced. But that whiff of dishonor barely begins to tell the whole story. / In these pages Archbishop Weakland recounts his life from his childhood in rural Pennsylvania to his retirement from the archbishopric in 2002 at the age of 75, all in the context of the Church that he long served. Weakland takes readers with him to Rome, where he discovered the splendor of a whole new intellectual world, and then to New York for his extensive musical study at Julliard and Columbia University. From his early days in the priesthood to his struggles with pontiffs, Weakland details how he learned to become a leader and minister to his people and how his famously liberal beliefs affected his ministry. While he presents an honest account of the scandal he is so often recognized for, the complete picture beyond rumor and accusation may come as a surprise to many readers. / Throughout his memoir Weakland describes with poignant honesty his psychological, spiritual, and sexual growth. Candid and engaging, A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church offers a fascinating inside look at both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II even as it tells the story of a life fully lived.