And the Journey Begins

Born profoundly deaf into an Orthodox Jewish hearing family in South Africa, Rev Dr Cyril Axelrod tells of his early childhood, family life and schooldays, when it was hard to communicate fully with his parents. After a wrenching spiritual journey in early adulthood, he was baptised into the Catholic Church and trained for the priesthood.

He tells of his pastoral ministry in many parts of the world with deaf and deafblind people, in which he has used over eight different indigenous sign lang...