Wow!
It’s hard to imagine how difficult his life must have been. Physically battling the devil...
exactly, the bio i read, it is excruciating what he went thru, for his Love of God, a lesson to be learned for all of us....
especially me and my whining over the most trivial of matters it seems....
St Gemma Galgani, a young woman who lived in Lucca Italy from 1878 to 1903, also received physical beatings from the devil.