The man who smuggled photographic images of the pages of St. Faustina's Diary out of Communist-occupied Poland in the 1970s and later documented her beatification and canonization miracles - died Thursday, Feb. 11, from illness related to COVID-19.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and a power outage in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Fr. David Smith, MIC, was ordained to the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy.
A former prisoner of war during World War II, he is remembered for his faith, his discipline, and as a walking and talking storehouse of Marian history and spirituality.
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