by Jim Havens | Feb 18, 2016 | Priorities |
A good example from Blessed Laszlo (Ladislaus) Batthyany-Strattmann: Ladislaus, a.k.a. Laszlo, was born into the lineage of Hungarian nobility in 1870, the sixth of ten brothers. Material wealth enveloped him, think castles and vast lands, and at the age of nine his...
by Jim Havens | Feb 4, 2016 | Suffer Well |
A good example from Blessed Jacopone of Todi: Born as a member of a noble family in the northern Italian city of Todi, Jacomo (“James”) became a lawyer and had a reputation as a worldly and greedy man. Yet, by God’s grace, he met and married Vanna,...