February 9, 2016

Diocese of Madagascar

Our little birds are leaving singing

The sight I saw before me was tragic: an 8-month-old infant with skin that looked 70 years old. Soft and wrinkled. I asked the father what the child was eating and he replied mostly rice. A Catholic nun sparingly gives him milk. I told them that the child definitely needs milk. In the afternoon I went to a pharmacy and bought him special milk for infants…

60 years later: Event in memory of Holy Missionaries