title: Elijah in Jerusalem
author:  Michael D. O'Brien 
description: <em>"Elijah in Jerusalem</em>takes the reader on a journey through Christianity's ancestral heartlands that is at times both moving and terrifying. Michael O'Brien's spiritual epic holds up a mirror to the moral chaos of the contemporary world without depriving the reader of hope." --<strong>Fiorella De Maria,</strong> Author, <em>Poor Banished Children</em><br /><br />"<em>Elijah in Jerusalem</em>is one of O'Brien's best-crafted books, a fast-moving, suspenseful page-turner adorned with lyrical graces and moments of joy which alternate with stark terror and evocations a powerful presence of evil so palpable that it will prompt sober reflection on our troubled times." --<strong>David Lyle Jeffrey, Ph.D.</strong><br /> Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Baylor University<br /><br />"The story of Father Elijah, who fights against the most misleading forms of evil with the weapons of Christ courage, humility, charity will appeal to anyone who is in search of heroism and truth. A thrilling novel full of deep intelligence and spirituality, tenderness and beauty." --<strong>Astridde Larminat</strong>, <em>Le Figaro</em> newspaper
zlib_text: ELIJAH IN JERUSALEM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Michael D. O’Brien
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ELIJAH IN JERUSALEM
  
  
  A Novel
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover art:  
  Elijah Sleeping by Michael D. O’Brien
  
  
  Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 2015 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-58617-946-5 (HB)  
  ISBN 978-1-68149-681-8 (EB)  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2015939068  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to
  you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers
  her brood under her wings, and you would not!
  
  
  —Matthew 23:37
  
  
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  Haec uenena potentius
  
  
  detrahunt hominem sibi
  
  
  dira quae penitus meant
  
  
  nec nocentia corpori
  
  
  mentis uulnere saeuiunt.
  
  
  These poisons more potently
  
  
  Usurp a man’s true self,
  
  
  Which penetrate deep within,
  
  
  And, harming not the body,
  
  
  Rage in a wound of the mind.
  
  
  —Boethius
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CONTENTS
  
  
  [Preface](index_split_0