Different Kind of Cell - The Story of a Murderer Who Became a Monk

The gripping story of one man's remarkable spiritual journey A most dangerous criminal, convicted of five violent murders, Clayton Anthony Fountain was condemned in 1974 to live out his days in solitary confinement at the highest-security prison in the U.S. Without ever again emerging from his cell, however, Fountain underwent a profound spiritual transformation. Father W. Paul Jones, who served as Fountain's spiritual adviser for six years until Fountain's sudden death in 2004, shares his amazing story with candor and compassion in these pages.

About the author

W. Paul Jones is a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist brother at Assumption Abbey in the Ozarks, and founding spiritual director of the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center, Pittsburg, Missouri. His other books include The Art of Spiritual Direction

Product details

• Authors: W Paul Jones, W. Paul Jones
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780802866516
• ISBN: 978-0-8028-6651-6
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 182 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies