It wasn’t like him to be away for so long, at least not without saying why. I wondered whether something had happened. Maybe he had had to help his brothers with their fishing? Sometimes when they returned with big catches he would stay at home without asking permission. Large cliques sat at the ...
The crowd outside the monastery in the village of Heisterbach, Upper Silesia, had grown and been joined by folk from other widely scattered mountain villages. For the rumours about the miracle worker had, at a given point in time, crossed the boundary at which temptation becomes mass hysteria. He...