Father Joel, from Preuţeşti, Suceava of Rumania is a
true example of humility for those around him.
Albeit the founder of three churches, he himself lives
in an extremely humble abode.
Comforts and material goods never mattered to
83-year-old father Joel. He has never even given a
thought to abandoning the "hut" that he himself had dug
in the ground.

To build the churches, Fr. Joel had run tirelessly in
order to collect donations.
"I dug out the hut, and for 2 years was beseeching the
Holy Mother to help me find the money to build a church.
I finally built - not one, but three churches! I don't
know how to thank God for all this", he stated...
