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Servant of God Jacques Fesch.

  THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF SERVANT OF GOD JACQUES FESCH. -           And what we can learn from such a life story. “Great sinners make great Saints. God has big plans for you” - Servant of God Fr. John Hardon SJ. I really love every story of conversion because each one is unique just like all of our human stories. But what each one has in common is the glorious power of God to touch our lives in an instant and transform them sometimes instantly. In a meditation of the day in the Magnificat I came across a piece about Jacques Fesch who is now a Servant of God on a path possibly to Sainthood. Jacques was born in 1930 in France to a father who was an avowed atheist while the mother was at least nominally Catholic. He seemed to be a troublemaker from an early age, neglected his homework, disrupted classes and made mischief until he was eventually expelled. As he grew older, he did not improve, failed to practice any semblance of faith...