The Man Who Got Even With God: The Life of An American Trappist by M. Raymond (GT999)

Published 1944: First Burns Oates and Washbourne Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition

Original brown and blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 118 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age. Scarce! (GT999)

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Going from a Texas "cowboy" to a Trappist monk is a transformation hard to imagine in any case, but almost unbelievable when that "cowboy" is a very violent, vengeful, and stubborn man.

This is the case of Brother Joaquín of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane, in Kentucky, whose extraordinary story is vividly narrated in this book by a fellow brother in religion.

This book is also a window into Trappist monastic life, highlighting discipline, prayer, and community living. [Google Books]

Fr. Mary Raymond Flanagan, O.C.S.O.

Born Joseph David Flanagan in 1903, he grew up in Massachusetts. He joined the Jesuits in 1920, teaching at Holy Cross College from 1927 to 1930 and later serving as retreat master. In 1936, he joined the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) at the cloister of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane in Kentucky where he received the name he is most know by today, Fr. Mary Raymond. He wrote twenty-two books as a Trappist, many dealing with the subject of how the laity could achieve sanctity.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/992197.The_Man_Who_Got_Even_With_God