Category: Missionary Vocation

“With the price of two of your planes destined to spread death, I can cure all the lepers of the world.” This bold challenge of Raoul Follereau, the “vagabond of charity,” was directed, in vain, to the two great leaders of USA and Russia in 1954, at the peak of the Cold War. A gifted poet and orator, this Frenchman, with his wife Madeleine, toured the world to tell everybody that the real leprosy was our superstitious fear that condemned millions of unfortunate brothers and sisters to isolation and neglect.