Eerdmans

Peregrino
A Pilgrim Journey into Catholic Mexico
Ron Austin
A lyrical guide to Mexican Catholic culture, history, and traditions
Ron Austin first “wandered purposefully” into Mexico
more than fifty years ago, when he produced a documentary
on Mexican history for American television.
Subsequent journeys over the next decades revealed to
him the rich and contradictory impulses of Mexican
culture as well as the extraordinary beauty of its people
and their expressions of faith.
Peregrino serves as an engaging map to the heart of
Mexico, for those “pilgrims” open to wonder and discovery,
for those ready to encounter Austin’s Mexico of
saints and art. Not limiting his scope just to physical
journeys and landscapes, Austin invites us to undertake
an interior journey as well. His spiritual exploration of
Catholic Mexico reveals the versatile genius of a specific
(and neighboring) culture and at once forces us to look
at our own culture in a new light.
“A most extraordinary sort of travel book through the spiritual
heart of Mexico. Ron Austin is scholarly and personal, opinionated
and loving, detailed and expansive in his excursion. That
this journey ends with faith is as fine a conclusion that I can
imagine for this modern pilgrim’s excellent guided tour through
the Mexican Catholic soul.” — Richard Rodriguez
author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Ron Austin has been a writer and producer in
Hollywood for fifty years and is the recipient of a
lifetime achievement award by the Writers Guild of
America. On his many travels throughout Mexico, he
has interviewed a wide spectrum of Catholic leaders
and laypeople, and he himself has resided for several
years in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende.
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6″ × 9″ paperback
12 color photos / 6 b&w images
224 pages / $19.99 [£12.99]
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