Title: For the sake of silence
Description: On a remote mission station a monk buries the heart of his Superior beneath the great iron cross overlooking the no-man's-land between the colonies of Natal and the Cape. He then begins to write his own account of his dead leader and friend Abbot Franz Pfanner...
Subjects: Mariannhill Missionaries, Trappists, Fiction, Missionaries, fiction, South africa, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Religious life and customs
Places: South Africa
People: Franz Pfanner (1825-1909)