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The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.The novel concerns the election of a Ukrainian pope, and is a dissection of Vatican politics.William H. Honan "Morris West, Popular Novelist Focusing Read More..

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Description	The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.The novel concerns the election of a Ukrainian pope, and is a dissection of Vatican politics.William H. Honan "Morris West, Popular Novelist Focusing on Faith, Dies at 83", New York Times, 12 October 1999 Many of the characteristics of Father Telemond were based on the controversial French Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Morris West's Kiril Pavlovich Lakota is inspired by the lives of two Ukrainian Catholic bishops: Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Bishop Hryhorij Lakota. Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963, the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and United States President John F. Kennedy. Slipyj arrived in Rome in time to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Lakota died in 1950 in a Soviet Gulag.Pope John XXIII died on the day the novel was published, 3 June 1963.Tony Stephens, "Last Rites", Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 3 June 2000 The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the No. 1 best-selling novel in the United States for that year, according to Publishers Weekly. In the story, Kiril Lakota, the protagonist and archbishop of Lviv was created cardinal with the title of St. Athanasius. In 1965, Josyf Slipyj, Archbishop (later Major-Archbishop) of Lviv was proclaimed a cardinal with the title of Sant'Atanasio (St. Athanasius) by Pope Paul VI.A film version directed by Michael Anderson was released in 1968.
Description	The Shoes of the Fisherman is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963.The novel concerns the election of a Ukrainian pope, and is a dissection of Vatican politics.William H. Honan "Morris West, Popular Novelist Focusing on Faith, Dies at 83", New York Times, 12 October 1999 Many of the characteristics of Father Telemond were based on the controversial French Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Morris West's Kiril Pavlovich Lakota is inspired by the lives of two Ukrainian Catholic bishops: Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Bishop Hryhorij Lakota. Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963, the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and United States President John F. Kennedy. Slipyj arrived in Rome in time to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Lakota died in 1950 in a Soviet Gulag.Pope John XXIII died on the day the novel was published, 3 June 1963.Tony Stephens, "Last Rites", Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 3 June 2000 The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the No. 1 best-selling novel in the United States for that year, according to Publishers Weekly. In the story, Kiril Lakota, the protagonist and archbishop of Lviv was created cardinal with the title of St. Athanasius. In 1965, Josyf Slipyj, Archbishop (later Major-Archbishop) of Lviv was proclaimed a cardinal with the title of Sant'Atanasio (St. Athanasius) by Pope Paul VI.A film version directed by Michael Anderson was released in 1968.

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