#182 Old Friends- Shusaku Endo
Old friends meet together, some perhaps for the last time.
They remember their youths and remember the war. Mostly they remember Father
Bosch. He is a 70 year-old priest who was tortured during the war, called a
spy and removed from his parish and the lives of these friends.
“In those days every foreigner was suspect.. The police and
the military authority kept an even closer watch on Catholic priests.”
Father Bosch survived these tortures but something always
dies in souls that endure such horrors. Never the less, he remains in this
place that caused him these nightmares.
“He never thought of abandoning the people who had inflicted
such cruel tortures upon him. Undoubtedly one day his bones would be laid to
rest in this land."
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