Today, as fathers are more important than ever, they are increasingly absent. Yet fathers of families are called to holiness as much as anyone in the clerical or religious life.
79 years ago today, Blessed Odoardo Focherini, a Catholic father of seven, died in a Nazi concentration camp. His life offers us an exemplary model of a Catholic layman: a devoted husband and father, his charitable works might seem routine. And then, suddenly, they were flowers blooming on the path to heroic martyrdom..
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