Biographies & Memoirs 

The account you are about to read is the story of a mystic, a visionary, a suffering servant, a victim of Communism. it is the story of a nationalist, a rebel, a Catholic activist. it is the account of a man who spent much of his life behind bars because of his faith and evangelism. It is also the story of extraordinary events - allegedly supernatural events - that are said to have occurred in the Ukraine.

Josyp Jaromyr Terelya has fought for the cause of Christianity all his life and in the most hostile of circumstances. This is his autobiography. It details 20 years in prisons and camps. It is truly remarkable. We publish it, simply because we believe in it.

-"Josyp Terelya is the stuff of Hollywood epics. Terelya's is an adventure story of classic proportions." Patrick F Brennan, Sr., in Mission of the Immaculata

-"Josyp Terelya spent 20 long years in the Soviet prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals because he fought for the right of all Ukrainian Catholics to practice their religious beliefs." US Senator Frank Lautenberg

-"Another Alexander Solzhenitsyn is crying out to us from deep within the Soviet prison system." Columnist Jack Anderson

-"Terelya is one of the lay leaders who have helped keep the Church alive through more than 40 years of persecution." The Boston Globe

-Reads like a chilling resume of one whose career has been based on how to survive in the Soviet gulag. His 'crimes' center around his leadership in the Ukrainian Catholic Church." Senator Dennis DeConcini, Commission on Security in Europe

Taken from the back cover.