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Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Rudolph, Conrad, --- Travel --- Spain, Northern --- Santiago de Compostela (Spain) --- Description and travel. --- pilgrimage, passage, holy site, sacred, santiago de compostela, france, spain, travel, religion, spirituality, christianity, journey, nonfiction, memoir, christian pilgrims, faith, biography, transformation, worship, dedication, piety, voyage, history, jesus, christ, disciples, scripture, bible, relics, catholicism, middle ages, route.
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Jeanne de Jussie (1503-61) experienced the Protestant Reformation from within the walls of the Convent of Saint Clare in Geneva. In her impassioned and engaging Short Chronicle, she offers a singular account of the Reformation, reporting not only on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics but also on events in her convent-devious city councilmen who lied to trusting nuns, lecherous soldiers who tried to kiss them, and iconoclastic intruders who smashed statues and burned paintings. Throughout her tale, Jussie highlights women's roles on both sides of the conflict, from the Reformed women who came to her convent in an attempt to convert the nuns to the Catholic women who ransacked the shop of a Reformed apothecary. Above all, she stresses the Poor Clares' faithfulness and the good men and women who came to them in their time of need, ending her story with the nuns' arduous journey by foot from Reformed Geneva to Catholic Annecy. First published in French in 1611, Jussie's Short Chronicle is translated here for an English-speaking audience for the first time, providing a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a rare glimpse at early modern monastic life.
Reformation --- Protestant Reformation --- Church history --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- History --- Geneva (Switzerland) --- Genève (Switzerland) --- Genf (Switzerland) --- Ginevra (Switzerland) --- Jih-nei-wa (Switzerland) --- Ginebra (Switzerland) --- Cheneba (Switzerland) --- Geneua (Switzerland) --- Cenevre (Switzerland) --- Colonia Allobrogum (Switzerland) --- Genevra (Switzerland) --- Geneva (Republic) --- geneva, convent of saint clare, protestant reformation, cloister, religion, spirituality, catholicism, protestantism, conflict, sect, nuns, history, women, gender, autobiography, biography, diary, conversion, looting, pillage, apothecary, faith, piety, worship, annecy, monasticism, seclusion, nonfiction, memoir, pilgrimage, refugee.
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In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered. Many years later, after enjoying successful lives in California, they met, became friends, and decided to share their intimate story-that of two boys trapped in evil and destructive times, who became men with the freedom to construct their own future, with each other and the world. In a new epilogue, the authors share how the publication of the book changed their lives and the lives of the countless people they have met as a result of publishing their story.
Jewish children in the Holocaust --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust survivors --- Children --- Rosner, Bernat, --- Tubach, Frederic C. --- Tab (Hungary) --- Germany --- California --- 1944. --- america. --- auschwitz. --- boys and men. --- california. --- compassion. --- discussion books. --- emotional. --- enemies and friends. --- forgiveness. --- germany. --- good and evil. --- growth and change. --- heartwarming. --- hitler youth. --- holocaust survivor. --- holocaust. --- humanity. --- hungary. --- inspirational. --- jewish children. --- judaism. --- life journey. --- life stories. --- male friendships. --- nazis. --- nonfiction memoir. --- power of friendship. --- touching story. --- true story. --- unlikely friends. --- uplifting stories. --- world war ii. --- wwii.
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