Excerpt from Franciscan Herald, Vol. 2: January, 1914 Joseph Delbrouck, the hero of this sketch, was born on Saturday, May 14, 1870, at Boirs, near Liege, Belgium. On the same day he was baptized in the parish church, which was dedicated to St. Lam bert, Martyr. In a booklet of blessed memories, as he called them, Joseph later made a special note of the fact that he was born and baptized on the day and in the month, dedicated to the blessed Mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.