Saturday, April 26, 2008

One of my favorites: St. Leopold Mandic

You can read about him in the Ferdinand Holbock book "New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church" Ignatius Press 2000, which I highly recommend and enjoy very much. The chapter on him is so very moving and gives great detail.

I found this website also gives a wonderful account of this incredible holy man.

While he suffered from great physical deformity he never lost his faith, he had an ardent love for Mary, and he sat in a tiny unheated hut for forty years, hearing confessions from anyone and all.

If you tire, as I do, reading all that is phony, fake and manipulated day after day, refresh your eyes with reading about this dear saint who was the "real thing" throughout his mortal life.

http://www.firponet.com/Francesco/Servants/LeopoldMandic/Fran_serv_Leopold_eng.htm