Father Joel, from Preuţeşti, Suceava of Rumania is a
true example of humility for those around him.
Albeit the founder of three churches, he himself lives
in an extremely humble abode.
Comforts and material goods never mattered to
83-year-old father Joel. He has never even given a
thought to abandoning the "hut" that he himself had dug
in the ground.
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To build the churches, Fr. Joel had run tirelessly in
order to collect donations.
"I dug out the hut, and for 2 years was beseeching the
Holy Mother to help me find the money to build a church.
I finally built - not one, but three churches! I don't
know how to thank God for all this", he stated...
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