An edition of The Way of a Pilgrim (1974)
The Way of a Pilgrim
By R.M. French
Publish Date
October 12, 1974
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
eng
Pages
144
Description:
The Way of a Pilgrim is the English title of a 19th century anonymous Russian work, detailing the narrator's journey across the country while discovering practicing the Jesus Prayer devoutly, with the help of a prayer rope, and studying the Philokalia. The Russian original, or a copy of it, was present at a Mount Athos monastery in Greece in the 19th century, and was first published in Kazan in 1884.[1] The Russian title of the book is actually much longer than its English translation: "Откровенные рассказы странника духовному своему отцу" - literally, "Candid narratives of a pilgrim to his spiritual father.