num_pages: 296
description: Toibin, a "collapsed" Catholic, offers an odyssey into his inner self as he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, the shrines, the fanatics, the charlatans and the sincerely devout Toibin encountered on his journeys.
language: English
title: The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
titlecomplete: The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
genres: Ireland, Religion, Italy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, Irish Literature, Biography Memoir, History, Spain
ratings_count: 206
publisher: Pantheon