With bound hands : a Jesuit in Nazi Germany : the life and selected prison letters of Alfred Delp / Mary Frances Coady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coady, Mary Frances.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Delp, Alfred.

Jesuits--Germany--Biography.

Jesuits.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Jesuit Way, [2003]

Summary:

On February 2, 1945, Fr. Alfred Delp, S.J., a widely admired pastor, youth leader, and intellectual, was executed by the Nazis in Plotzensee 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 priest transformed into a herald of hope and grace. With Bound Hands tells the absorbing story of Alfred Delp -- a Jesuit hero who found redemption as he plumbed the depths of evil.

Contents:

1. Young Scamp 1907-1926 1

2. Becoming a Jesuit 1926-1937 9

3. War and Priestly Ministry 1937-1941 25

4. The "Friends" of the Kreisau Circle 1941-1943 41

5. The Beginning of the End January-July 28, 1944 61

6. Tegel Prison August-October 1944 73

7. With Bound Hands October-November 1944 85

8. Across the Abyss December 1-December 7, 1944 101

9. Complete Surrender December 8-December 31, 1944 111

10. Into the Fire January 1-January 8, 1945 143

11. Inferno January 9-January 11, 1945 159

12. After the Trial January 11-January 21, 1945 173

13. Final Days January 23-February 2, 1945 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.

Contains:

Delp, Alfred. Correspondence. English. Selections.

ISBN:

082941794X

OCLC:

52091927