Silence Books After four brief

After four brief

Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light

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Silence Books After four briefSeventeenth century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests bear witness to unimaginable cruelties that test their own beliefs. Shusaku Endo is one of the most celebrated and well known Japanese fiction writers of