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Henri Daniel-Rops (1901–1965)

” –Joseph Ratzinger

and aided by commentary from the Church Fathers

grandmother of Henry VIII

My Thirty-Third Year Caryll Houselander ) of Thomas and theBy Gerhard A. Fittkau Winter 1945: the Soviet army sweeps through the village of Suessenberg. After desecrating the church, pillaging the homes, raping and killing women and children, the Soviets deport the remaining people and their pastor, Fr. Fittkau, to the gulag in Siberia. The burden of My Thirty Third Year is the story of their unbounded suffering: the starvation and cold, the brutal toil, the specter of death, and the persistent temptation to