Servant of God, Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJThe Papal Artifacts’ Collection is primarily dedicated to artifacts connected to the papacy. Individual popes, their biographies and multiple items belonging to them, including first and second class relics, make up the majority of this Collection. But that isn’t all it is.
Father Kunst has a deep devotion to the saints as can be readily seen in viewing the Saints & Blesseds section of this site. We invite you to visit Papal History/Saints & Blesseds to view the many canonized and beatified men and women who make up this section of the Collection.
Servant of God, Walter Ciszek SJ is the most recent. Since he will be beatified we are including him with the Saints & Blesseds.
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- Walter Ciszek SJ: Signed Copy of With God in Russia
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- Walter Ciszek SJ: Signed Copy of With God in Russia
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- Servant of God, Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ
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- Servant of God, Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ
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- Servant of God, Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ
“Across that threshold I had been afraid to cross, things suddenly seemed so very simple. There was but a single vision, God, who was all in all; there was, but one will that directed all things, God’s will. I had only to see it, to discern it in every circumstance in which I found myself, and let myself be ruled by it. God is in all things, sustains all things, directs all things. To discern this in every situation and circumstance, to see His will in all things, was to accept each circumstance and situation and let oneself be borne along in perfect confidence and trust. Nothing could separate me from Him because He was in all things. No danger could threaten me, no fear could shake me, except the fear of losing sight of Him. The future, hidden as it was, was hidden in His will and therefore acceptable to me no matter what it might bring. The past, with all its failures, was not forgotten; it remained to remind me of the weakness of human nature and the folly of putting any faith in self. But it no longer depressed me. I looked no longer to self to guide me, relied on it no longer in any way, so it could not again fail me. By renouncing, finally and completely, all control of my life and future destiny, I was relieved as a consequence of all responsibility. I was freed thereby from anxiety and worry, from every tension, and could float serenely upon the tide of God’s sustaining providence in perfect peace of soul.”
Walter Ciszek SJ: Signed Copy of With God in Russia
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 302 pp
The item is a hardcover, first edition signed copy of With God in Russia. It is in very good condition with unmarked text and was signed in 1964, the year of publication.
Servant of God Ciszek’s cause for sainthood is currently in process. He will undoubtedly be canonized one day making this copy invaluable in more ways than one.
This book was written shortly after his return home to the US in a spy exchange with the Soviets.
The Imprimatur, as shown in the photos, is from Cardinal Francis Spellman, August 1964.
