Through Gates of Splendor is Elisabeth Elliot's account of five young American missionaries who were killed in January 1956 while trying to make friendly contact with the Waorani, an isolated people of the Ecuadorian rainforest then known to outsiders as the Aucas. Elliot, the widow of one of the men, tells the story largely through the men's own letters, diaries and the recollections of their wives.
Elisabeth Elliot · AuthorThrough Gates of Splendor
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Elisabeth Elliot
About Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015), born Elisabeth Howard to missionary parents in Brussels and raised in New Jersey, studied Greek at Wheaton College and went to Ecuador as a missionary in 1952. She married Jim Elliot in Quito in 1953, and their daughter Valerie was born in 1955, ten months before Jim was killed. After writing Through Gates of Splendor she lived for about two years among the Waorani with her daughter and Rachel Saint, then wrote Shadow of the Almighty (1958), The Savage My Kinsman (1961) and many later books on faith, suffering and Christian womanhood, and for years hosted the radio program Gateway to Joy.