St Benedict Joseph Labre: Votary of Holy Poverty and Pilgrim

In God's mysterious plan He occasionally raises up a saint who lives a life so radically different from the ordinary that we are reminded how 'other' God is, how true it is when He says in Holy Scripture 'For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways' (Is 55:8). St Benedict Joseph Labre is one of those saints. Born into an ordinary French family in the mid 18th Century, he started his studies for ordination, then failed in several attempts to enter religious life before findi...