LIGHT UPON THE SCAFFOLD: THE PRISON LETTERS OF JACQUES FESCH

Servant of God Jacques Fesch (1930-1957), a murderer who spent three years and eight months in solitary confinement, experienced a profound conversion before his execution by guillotine in a French prison. Light Upon the Scaffold, edited by Augustin-Michel Lemonnier and translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, is the title of his collected prison letters. Jacques’ father, […]