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In 1957, at twenty-seven years old, Father Aloysius Schwartz of Washington D.C., asked to be sent to one of the saddest places in the world: South Korea in the wake of the Korean War. Just a few months into his priesthood, he stepped off the train in Seoul into a dystopian film, Squatters with blank stares picked through hills of garbage. Paper-fleshed orphans lay on the street like leftover war shrapnel. The scenes pierced him. Within just fifteen years, Father Schwartz had changed the course of Korean history, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, schools, and the Sisters of Mary, a Korean religious order dedicated to sickest of the sick and poorest of the poor. All the while, he himself–like the Sisters–lived the same hard poverty as the people he served and loved. Known for his joy and his humor, even in the teeth of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Schwartz was declared a Servant of God by Pope Francis in 2015. By the time of his death in 1992, his work with the Sisters of Mary had spread to the Philippines and Mexico; and Girlstowns across Central and South America, as well as in Tanzania. Paper.1
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