St. Benedict Joseph Labre

In a modern inner city, one local character kneels for hours on the sidewalk and prays.
Swathed in his entire wardrobe winter and summer, he greets passersby with a blessing.
Where he sleeps no one knows, but he is surely a direct spiritual descendant of St. Benedict Joseph Labre, the ragged man who slept in the ruins of Rome’s Colosseum.
These days we ascribe such behavior to mental illness; St. Benedict Joseph Labre’s contemporaries called him holy.
Holiness is always a bit mad by earthly standards.

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