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St. John the Merciful — The Saint a Beggar Conned Three Times
A beggar tricked one of the most powerful men in the Christian world out of money — three separate times, in three different disguises. He got away with it every time, and the man he conned never once regretted it.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. John the Merciful, the church leader who gave away an entire fortune to the poor and refused to condemn one of his own monks on rumor alone — even when his own clergy demanded it. Along the way, we tell the story of that monk, St. Vitalis…
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