Priest and beggar : the heroic life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz
by Wells, Kevin (Author)
Summary
In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington, D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film. Squatters with blan... Full description
Summary: |
In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington, D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film. Squatters with blank stares picked through hills of garbage. Paper-fleshed orphans lay on the streets like leftover war shrapnel. The scenes pierced him. Within just fifteen years, Father Schwartz had changed the course of Korean history, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, schools, and the Sisters of Mary, a Korean religious order dedicated to the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. All the while, he himself--like the Sisters--lived the same hard poverty as the people he served and loved. |
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Physical Description: |
199 pages ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
1621645061 9781621645061 |
Author Notes: |
Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, award-winning journalist, and the best-selling author of The Priests We Need to Save the Church . He is a freelance writer and an active evangelist who speaks on various Catholic topics. He is the President of the Monsignor Thomas Wells Society, which is dedicated to the promotion of strong priests and seminarians, and to the practice of the fullness of the Catholic faith. Kevin lives in Millersville, MD with his wife and three children. |