With God in Russia: The Inspiring Traditional Account of a Catholic Priest’s Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

Republished for a brand new century and that includes an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the traditional memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag throughout the top of the Chilly Conflict—a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary religion and fortitude as indelible as Unbroken. Foreword by Daniel L. Flaherty.

Whereas ministering in Jap Europe throughout World Conflict II, Polish-American priest Walter Ciszek, S.J., was arrested by the NKVD, the Russian secret police, shortly after the struggle ended. Accused of being an American spy and charged with “agitation with intent to subvert,” he was held in Moscow’s infamous Lubyanka jail for 5 years. The Catholic priest was then sentenced with out trial to 10 extra years of arduous labor and transported to Siberia, the place he would develop into a prisoner inside the compelled labor camp system made well-known in Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize—profitable ebook The Gulag Archipelago.

In With God in Russia, Ciszek displays on his every day life as a prisoner, the labor he endured whereas working within the mines and on building gangs, his unwavering religion in God, and his agency devotion to his vows and vocation. Enduring brutal circumstances, Ciszek risked his life to supply non secular steerage to fellow prisoners who may simply have uncovered him for their very own features. He chronicles these experiences with grace, humility, and candor, from his secret work main mass and listening to confessions inside the jail grounds, to his participation in a significant gulag rebellion, to his personal “resurrection”—his eventual launch in a prisoner change in October 1963 which astonished all who had feared he was lifeless.

Highly effective and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic endurance, endurance, and non secular conviction of a person whose life embodied the Christian beliefs that sustained him.