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By Maura Roan McKeegan, Catholic Exchange, Aug. 28, 2023

Maura Roan McKeegan is an award-winning author of twelve Catholic children’s books. …

Special thanks to Maria Palma Smith for the use of her English translation of the book Amore, Dolindo, Dolore (Casa Mariana Editrice “Apostolato Stampa”, 2001). Publication of the English translation is forthcoming from Academy of the Immaculate Publishing.

“Don Dolindo and Padre Pio go together,” a dear Italian friend told me recently. “You can pray to them together.”

This friend was born and raised in Servant of God Don Dolindo’s neighborhood in Naples, and her grandparents knew him well. She grew up with such a deep devotion to Don Dolindo that, when she immigrated to America in the 1970s, the only thing she really wanted to bring—the one thing of utmost importance to her, that she wanted to be certain to have with her in her new home—was her collection of Don Dolindo’s books.

In Italy, Don Dolindo is famous and dearly beloved. In America today, he is gaining many spiritual children through the Surrender Novena. Yet many of us in English-speaking countries are only just beginning to learn about his life. …

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