For the Sake of Silence
On a remote mission station a monk buries the heart of his Superior beneath the great iron cross overlooking the no-man's-land between the colonies of Natal and the Cape. He then begins to write his own account of his dead leader and friend Abbott Franz Pfanner, charismatic leader of the Trappists in South Africa and much mythologised founder of Mariannhill monastery and its chain of missions. Under Pfanner, Mariannhill became one of the largest abbeys in the world, but only at a terrible price. The narrator of this extraordinary tale is witness to a story that ranges from Austria to Bosnia, Natal to East Griqualand. Aptly named after Joseph…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4152-0374-3
- EAN: 9781415203743
- Produktnummer: 29379129
- Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'098 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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