Pilgrims of the Night
by Edward Ernest Swanstrom
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About this eBook
- Author
- Swanstrom, Edward Ernest, 1903-1985
- Title
- Pilgrims of the night : A study of expelled peoples
- Original Publication
- New York: Sheed and Ward, 1950.
- Credits
- Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D731: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War II (1939-1945)
- Subject
- Political refugees
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 78506
- Release Date
- April 20, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Pilgrims of the Night
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Foreword
- 6.Contents
- 7.Untitled
- 8.CHAPTER I The Dispossessed
- 9.CHAPTER II Men and Work — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.CHAPTER III Men and Slave Labor
- 11.CHAPTER IV The Women — A young girl — A mother of eight children — Mourning for children lost — Mourning for children about to be born — Mourning for husbands — Old women waiting for death
- 12.CHAPTER V The Children — The little lost children — Day after day, heart-breaking announcements — Search services for missing children — Uprooted orphanages — Child life in barracks — Youth without hope — Children of the dispersion — Tale told at night by homeless children — A picture of desolation
- 13.CHAPTER VI The Priests — Homeless priests—their flocks dispersed — A priest in siberia — Uprooted Catholics without churches — Almost never off his motorcycle — Children who knew Christ’s Cross — No food before evening — To save a whole generation
- 14.CHAPTER VII Two Bishops and Their Burdens — An expelled bishop
- 15.CHAPTER VIII The Long Procession — Expelled without relation to individual guilt — The pyramid of chaos — The long procession — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Notes
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