Memoirs of Joseph Prost, C.Ss.R.: A Redemptorist Missionary in Ireland 1851-1854

Author/Contributor(s):	Larkin, Emmet
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Date:	03/31/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The recollections of Joseph Prost, an Austrian priest who initiated the Redemptorist parish missionary campaign in Ireland in 1851, provides a fascinating chronicle of the ' devotional revolution' by one of its most earnest organizers. He supplies a detailed account of the religious practices and social mores just after the Great Famine.