Martyr in Tibet : the heroic life of father Maurice Tornay, St. Bernard missionary to Tibet. [Martyr au Thibet : Maurice Tornay, chanoine régulier du Grand-St-Bernard, 1910-1949. English] / Robert Loup, auth.; Charles Davenport, trans.

"A reverent and authoritative biography of the young Swiss missionary-monk, Father Maurice Tornay, who in 1949 was martyred in Tibet. It is equally the tragic story of the mission to Tibet, undertaken in this century by the monks of the famed Grand-St.-Bernard monastery in the Alps, which abruptly ended with the expulsion of the monks by the Chinese Communists in 1952. The story is fascinating and inspiring. Interesting details of the history, locale and customs of the Grand-St.-Bernard of the Alps on the one hand and of Tibet, the land of the lamas, on the other, are woven into the fabric of the narrative. It is essentially a story of sanctity and heroism pitted against forces of nature, war, duplicity and persecution."-- Kirkus Review.