Cyril Axelrod
Cyril Axelrod is a Redemptorist priest who was born deaf and was diagnosed with progressive blindness in his forties. He was one of the first deaf persons in the world to train to become a Catholic priest. He has travelled the world empowering deaf people and speaks many languages using sign. He also spent extensive time working deaf people in apartheid in South Africa. He currently lives in London and helps the deaf population in the Camden Town area.
Articles by Cyril Axelrod
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Ideas
The wealth of touch in faith
- 08 April 2008
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In the second of his articles on life and faith as a deafblind priest, Cyril Axelrod explains how he now sees God through his senses of smell and touch.
Society
Understanding deaf blindness through faith
- 07 April 2008
This week we will look into deaf and blind faith and how faith is crucial in a deafblind person's life because it turns the unseen into the understood.
