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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Colm Tóibín
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Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism's rituals and processions, its high-minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross-shaped wound that lies at his own center--and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane.



"A writer of considerable poetic gifts. Toibin's descriptions are enlivening."--Los Angeles Times Book Review


"An extraordinary document."--Entertainment Weekly
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1994
ISBN 13
9780679758556

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Colm Tóibín
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism's rituals and processions, its high-minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross-shaped wound that lies at his own center--and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane.



"A writer of considerable poetic gifts. Toibin's descriptions are enlivening."--Los Angeles Times Book Review


"An extraordinary document."--Entertainment Weekly
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1994
ISBN 13
9780679758556

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