The Pilgrim’s Tale

Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1999
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: xii + 237
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.8 cm × 15.3 cm × 1.6 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒3709-7

   
Edited with an Introduction by Aleksei Pentkovsky
Translated by T. Allan Smith
Preface by Jaroslav Pelikan

A volume of The Classics of Western Spirituality: A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters

“In 1881 the superior of Saint Michael the Archangel monastery of Cheremis in the diocese of Kazan, Hegumen Paisii Fedorov, published in Kazan four tales of a certain pious pilgrim. The tales described how the pilgrim obtained the gift of praying the Jesus prayer unceasingly and the edifying and instructive events that happened to him while he wandered at length across the limitless expanses of Siberia. The book was called ‘The Candid Tale of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father.’”
—“Introduction: From ‘A Seeker of Unceasing Prayer’ to ‘The Candid Tales of a Pilgrim’ (notes on the textual history and authorship of The Pilgrim’s Tale)”

CONTENTS

   Preface
   Introduction
   Notes to Introduction
THE TALES OF A PILGRIM, A SEEKER OF PRAYER
   The Tale of a Pilgrim, how he acquired the gift of interior unceasing prayer of the heart
   The Pilgrim’s Tale on the occasion of his second meeting, 13 December 1859
   The Pilgrim’s Tale on the occasion of his third and farewell meeting, 20 December 1859
   The Pilgrim’s Tale on the occasion of a fourth and unexpected meeting
Appendix
Tales Five, Six, and Seven
   The Pilgrim’s Tale on the occasion of the fifth meeting
   The Sixth Meeting
   The Seventh Meeting
   Notes to Text
   Bibliography
   Index