Robert Annys: Poor Priest. A Tale of the Great Uprising

The narrative follows a poor, itinerant priest who, having studied under a reforming teacher, travels among rural people preaching scripture in their language and teaching them to read. Confronted by social injustices and a stirring popular uprising led by a more radical preacher, he struggles between loyalty to his teacher's prudent counsel and sympathy for immediate reform. The story portrays his inner doubts, the clash between hierarchical church authority and lay spiritual life, and the consequences of preaching that kindles political unrest, interweaving vivid landscape scenes with sermons, moral debate, and the tense atmosphere of a community on the brink of rebellion.