VENERABLE ALOYSIUS SCHWARTZ, the third of eight children, was born in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 1930.. His father, Louis Schwartz, sold furniture door-to-door, and his mother, Cedelia Bourassa, had come to work in Washington , D.C.
His mother died of cancer, when he was 16 years old. He grew up with the idea of becoming a priest. As time passed, this idea become more intense and specific. He would become a secular priest, he would work as a missionary, and his apostolate would be to the poor and the needy.
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In 1944, he entered St. Charles Seminary in Maryland , finishing his B.A. Degree at Maryknoll College and studing theology at Louvain Catholic University in Belgium
He was ordained a diocesan priest on June 29, 1957 and was assigned in Busan , South Korea
In 1985, he started new work in the Philippines Mexico
With humility, courage and unwavering faith, he suffered and accepted humiliations, criticisms, trials, pains, and difficulties, just to be able to serve and love God through the poor. His illness made him immobile but still even in a wheelchair, he continued to fulfill his duties with joy. He spent hours before the Blessed Sacrament, praying the rosary, hearing confessions, and heroically preaching in words and examples, the virtues of truth, justice, chastity, charity and humility. His love for God and the poor consumed him. He not only helped the poor, but he also lived poor.
On March 16, 1992, he died at the Girlstown in Manila and he was buried at the Boystown in Cavite , Philippines
The Sisters of Mary and the Brothers of Christ continue to live his charism of serving the poorest of the poor in Korea , Philippines , Mexico , Guatemala and Brazil
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