The Master of Hestviken: The Snake Pit (Volume II) Padraic Colum Father Chisholm is sent as

Father Chisholm is sent as a missionary to China

“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ

sufferer of living death

the Divine Physician whose hands bring healing

The Master of Hestviken: The Snake Pit (Volume II) Padraic Colum Father Chisholm is sent asBy Sigrid Undset Translated by Arthur G. Chater The Master of Hestviken tetralogy, set in thirteenth century Norway, is the story of Olav Audunsson, a man whose life is a chronicle of conflict: between the brutal facts of the fading pagan order and the ascendant light of Christianity, between violence and peace, fidelity and betrayal, transgression and redemption. The Snake Pit follows Olav and Ingunn as they return to Olavs ancestral home of