Guerrilla Priest eBook Stephen Griffiths
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"Guerrilla Priest" is based on the memoirs my parents wrote of their experiences in the Philippines in World War II. I have combined their accounts into a third-person narrative. At the beginning of World War II, Al Griffiths was priest-in-charge of St. Paul's Mission in Balbalasang, Kalinga, Philippine Episcopal Church's most isolated mission.
With the support of Balbalasang's Chief Puyao, Griffiths helped the miner Walter Cushing organize the first guerrilla resistance to the Japanese in northern Luzon. Their 121st company of guerrillas ambushed the Japanese at Lamonan and inflicted significant casualties. After General Wainwright surrendered on Bataan, Cushing ordered Griffiths to cease his guerrilla efforts. Knowing that the Japanese wanted to capture him, Griffiths and his family, together with mission nurse Dottie Taverner, went into hiding in the forest.
They were captured in March 1943 and interned in Camp Holmes near Baguio and later at the Bilibid Prison in Manila. General MacArthur's 37th Infantry liberated them in February 1945. My father wrote his account of the war in 1946. He ends his narrative with their arrival in prison camp. My mother wrote hers in the early 1950s. Her narrative includes her prison camp experience.
Guerrilla Priest eBook Stephen Griffiths
Thank you, Steve, for your loving labor in putting together Guerrilla Priest. It added wonderful depth and dimension to the shallow, callow sketches I had of your parents when I was a teenage student at Brent. Guerrilla Priest is a riveting story on its own merits. And for me, reading Fr. G's words turned him into the strong, low-key, substantive, and oh, so decent human being he was. That you and Katy turned out to be such fine, decent human beings yourselves is testament to the people your parents were. A wise man once told me that anyone can be good when things are good; it's those who can remain so under adversity and duress who truly are. Oh, and the book was a good read!Product details
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Guerrilla Priest eBook Stephen Griffiths Reviews
A wonderfully engrossing and moving story of a family's survival under harrowing wartime conditions. A must read for anyone interested in the modern history of the Philippines, the Episcopal missionary effort, or the POW experience.
Good read!
This is a great read! The book has been passed around to 4 family members already.
Great story.
Good read
The writing style of the Guerrilla Priest is simple but direct, the subject matter informative, and the plight of Griffith family compelling. I am writing a historical fiction about miners trapped in northern Luzon during the Japanese invasion. This book has filled in some significant historical gaps with which I have been struggling. I gained a lot of insight reading it.
This recounts the WWII experience Fr. Lt.USA reserve chaplain Alfredo Griffiths who was an Episcopal missionary in peaceful head hunter country who hid out with his wife and young daughter until they were captured and held as POWs. Native tribes in northern Luzon helped, providing food & shelter.
Thank you, Steve, for your loving labor in putting together Guerrilla Priest. It added wonderful depth and dimension to the shallow, callow sketches I had of your parents when I was a teenage student at Brent. Guerrilla Priest is a riveting story on its own merits. And for me, reading Fr. G's words turned him into the strong, low-key, substantive, and oh, so decent human being he was. That you and Katy turned out to be such fine, decent human beings yourselves is testament to the people your parents were. A wise man once told me that anyone can be good when things are good; it's those who can remain so under adversity and duress who truly are. Oh, and the book was a good read!
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