With Bound Hands: A Jesuit in Nazi Germany: The Life and Selected Prison Letters of Alfred Delp

by Mary Frances Coady

On February 2, 1945, Fr. Alfred Delp, SJ, a widely admired pastor, youth leader, and intellectual, was executed by the Nazis in Pl tzensee Prison in Berlin. During the six months before his execution, the shackled priest painfully wrote a stream of deeply moving letters, meditations, and prayers which were smuggled out to friends and family members. These writings reveal a man profoundly changed in the crucible of suffering - a once-arrogant, impatient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082941794X
• ISBN13: 9780829417944
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Loyola Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"