Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

This is an engagingly personal account of the hardships, challenges, and rewards of a life lived wholly in the presence of God and at the service of the Alaskan people. In September 1935, Segundo Llorente, a wide-eyed twenty-eight-year-old Jesuit priest from Spain set foot in Alaska for the the first time. His memoirs are filled with all that he saw, endured, and enjoyed for forty years in Uncle Sam's "icebox," whether by dogsled in the 1930s or by plane and snowmobile in the 1970s. He prayed, worked, scolded, helped, and laughed with a practical wisdom that recalls the Ignatian spirituality in everyday life that also marks Father Walter Cisek's Russian journal, He Leadeth Me.

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Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

This is an engagingly personal account of the hardships, challenges, and rewards of a life lived wholly in the presence of God and at the service of the Alaskan people. In September 1935, Segundo Llorente, a wide-eyed twenty-eight-year-old Jesuit priest from Spain set foot in Alaska for the the first time. His memoirs are filled with all that he saw, endured, and enjoyed for forty years in Uncle Sam's "icebox," whether by dogsled in the 1930s or by plane and snowmobile in the 1970s. He prayed, worked, scolded, helped, and laughed with a practical wisdom that recalls the Ignatian spirituality in everyday life that also marks Father Walter Cisek's Russian journal, He Leadeth Me.

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Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

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This is an engagingly personal account of the hardships, challenges, and rewards of a life lived wholly in the presence of God and at the service of the Alaskan people. In September 1935, Segundo Llorente, a wide-eyed twenty-eight-year-old Jesuit priest from Spain set foot in Alaska for the the first time. His memoirs are filled with all that he saw, endured, and enjoyed for forty years in Uncle Sam's "icebox," whether by dogsled in the 1930s or by plane and snowmobile in the 1970s. He prayed, worked, scolded, helped, and laughed with a practical wisdom that recalls the Ignatian spirituality in everyday life that also marks Father Walter Cisek's Russian journal, He Leadeth Me.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780878403615
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 12/01/1990
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Prefacexiii
1The Beginning1
2The Inside Passage6
3The Alaska Railroad13
4The Yukon River21
5Traveling Down River30
6Welcome to the Akulurak Mission37
7Akulurak Stories47
8Crossing the Line: Kotzebue59
9Kotzebue and Beyond70
10Bury Me Next to Fr. Jette82
11The Winter Trail91
12Quiet Nunakhock108
13Summer in Akulurak117
14Bethel and Beyond121
15Holy Cross and McGrath133
16Starting Over147
17Alakanuk160
18Emmonak168
19Eskimo Life and Lore177
20Kwiguk and Saint Marys193
21The Alaska State Legislature201
22Nome211
Epilogue: More Missionaries224
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