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Peregrinación de Anastasio
Our edition · 1605 · 240 pages
Peregrinación de Anastasio
by Jerónimo Gracián
Written in Spanish as a dialogue, this autobiographical work by Jerónimo Gracián — the Discalced Carmelite friar Jerónimo de la Madre de Dios, close collaborator of Teresa of Ávila — recounts his captivity among the Barbary corsairs. Taken at sea in October 1593 and enslaved in Ottoman Tunis for some two years, he cared for fellow Christian captives at great personal risk; for his evangelizing his captors branded a cross onto the sole of his foot. He was ransomed in April 1595. (In Spanish; composed c. 1605 and circulated in manuscript, not printed in his lifetime.)
The changed life
A learned friar reduced to a slave in Tunis turned his bondage into a ministry to his fellow captives, bearing a cross burned into his own flesh as the mark of his witness.
A note on the text. Peregrinación de Anastasiois in the public domain. What you're buying is our edition — the careful typesetting and design. The original text is also available free here.