«Here goes a request of a man with no house to live and no place to hid from the rain and without a family, but I?ve got a big family now.

When somebody called me: «Fellow, I heard about a lady Mary who gives us food. Let?s go there so that we can eat!», I said: «Where in this world does somebody remember of miserable poor like us to feed us?». And he said: «There?s more: she gives clothes as well. They say it?s a very nice place. I won?t die of hunger.» He insisted so much that I finally went there. Then, when I saw, it was the house where the poor go there and eat very well.

This place is a piece of glut, affection and tenderness, where everybody wash hands and pray before eating. I didn?t know how to pray, but I?ve learnt quickly. When I got out of there, I thought: «Can it be that I am dead and God is taking care of me?» The next day I went back there: the same thing again.

On 11th January this year I felt ill inside Mary?s House and vomited blood. The Maries¹ were serving, but they left everything and came to help me. One Mary called Samu², it seems it was raining a lot; he stayed with me all the time. He took care of me while the others served. I had to stay in a hospital for one month.

I?m already back to my Mary?s House. I sleep in the streets, but I?m no more hungry or cold, because Mary?s House exists.

I don?t have a piece of paper, that?s why I write here³. May the world see this letter I write to Mary. I am a beggar, nobody listen to me, but there is much love in the depth of the donors? heart, so that a house like that can exist. God bless this house and all the Maries who help. In my prayer, at night, I say: «God, take care of Mary?s Houses and all the donors.»

Amen

Beggar

1 «Maries» are the volunteers who work in Beth Myriam. People who are fed there call every one of them «Mary».
2 Samu is a mobile health care service for emergencies. It seems that the beggar thinks that Samu is a person, maybe the doctor who helped him.