This is the powerfully moving story of how a young Norbertine priest, by orders from his superiors, left the silence of the Abbey in Belgium in 1947 to find some way to relieve the distress of the masses of refugees in Europe and Asia after World War II. He went on to found the organization Aid to the Church in Need, an international relief work that has helped millions of refugees, as well as millions in the persecuted Church behind the Iron Curtain. Called by the recipients of his generosity "the bacon priest," Fr. Werenfried, with only an old hat for begging, a strong faith, and a heart full of love has begged, received and given away over $700 million in the past forty years.

Churches, convents, chapel-trucks, shelters for the homeless, books, medicaments, and tens of thousands of young refugees studying for the priesthood are the tangible witnesses to the effort and self-denial engendered by Fr. Werenfried through the spoken and written word. The fruits of this have fed, fortified, encouraged and consoled countless numbers behind the Iron Curtain as far as Siberia and china.

This is a fascinating and impressive story of a modern apostleship of practical love, led by the most irresistible mendicant preacher of our times.