Most Catholics pray his famous words daily, yet know little about the harrowing life that forged them.

When we repeat the beloved Surrender Prayer—“O Jesus, I surrender myself to You, take care of everything!”—we often imagine it in the context of our own struggles and worries. We rarely stop to wonder what circumstances actually brought forth the prayer.

Before his death, the extraordinary twentieth-century mystic Servant of God Don Dolindo Ruotolo was subjected to decades of intense scrutiny by the Holy Office. He was repeatedly silenced, forbidden from celebrating Holy Mass publicly, and stripped of his priestly faculties.

To the modern world, his life looks like a tragedy of bureaucratic injustice. To  Catholics, it is the unmistakable hallmark of a saint.

Now, in a definitive English biography, the complete story of Don Dolindo Ruotolo's life is restored for the faithful who are drowning in the anxieties of our own chaotic age. What was once hidden by history and isolation is now yours to encounter.

Recover a radical witness to the Catholic Faith, and learn how to truly conquer anxiety through absolute abandonment to Divine Providence.

From the Book

“I hold these pains dear; they are the only homage I can give to God in my misery. For I can only give Him my misery, and this helps me to humble myself.”

- Don Dolindo Ruotolo