The journey of the man who became known as St. John of God was clouded by sadness and a remorse, it seemed, which no amount of self abnegation or charity could ever fully expunge. Perhaps the roots of this lay in a strange childhood misfortune, whose circumstances he could never explain. He was born in Portugal in 1495 and raised in a happy and loving home. But at the age of eight he disappeared from his family and somehow turned up on the other side of Spain as a homeless kid in the kingdom of Castille.

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