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3 unusual facts about The Way of a Pilgrim


The Way of a Pilgrim

In a positive introduction to the translation by Olga Savin, Thomas Hopko describes the book as a "spiritual classic" which teaches that ceaseless prayer is not only the goal, and the one thing worth living for, but is "life itself."

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Therefore, it was "between those two dates," 1853 and 1861, that the Pilgrim arrived at Irkutsk and found a spiritual father, two of the major events in the Pilgrim's narrative.

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The Way of a Pilgrim is the focus of the story "Franny" from the 1961 collection of short stories, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.



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