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#188: Father Dan Leary opens up...following the Heroic Path of Venerable Father Aloysius Schwartz

"I was a few years out of Villanova University and had just finished pretheology at seminary when I found myself at Villa de las Ninas (Girlstown) in Chalco, Mexico, in the summer of 1992. I knew almost nothing about the Sisters of Mary or Aloysius Schwartz, who had just died. Right away, the Sisters began to share stories about their spiritual father's intense love for Mary and how Our Lady had led him to commit his life to saving the poor. When they spoke of him, their eyes blazed. He seemed to me a giant, another Mother Teresa. A priest is ordained to save souls; he had saved generations of souls." --Father Dan Leary, in the Afterword of "Priest and Beggar", The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius  Schwartz

"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"--author Kevin Wells

(Also check out Episode #109: "Priest and Beggar" The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius  Schwartz with author Kevin Wells)

Below is the link to Priest and Beggar:
https://www.ignatius.com/Priest-and-Beggar-P3830.aspx

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