The Fires of Lilliput

A Jewish Holocaust survivor is the only living witness to the life of a man the Vatican is investigating for sainthood. This is her story. _____________________________ TWO REMARKABLE SOULS. ONE UNIMAGINABLE JOURNEY. The Vatican wants to declare Polish farmer and stigmatic Jakub Chelzak a Catholic saint. His miraculous healings and Crucifixion wounds brought true believers—and die-hard skeptics—from across Europe during its darkest hour. But before the Pope can canonize Jakub, the Church must hear from the most important eyewitness of all: Shosha Mordechai. Then a young Jewish woman, Shosha and her family disappeared after she and Jakub resisted the Nazis and helped each other survive. Only the second Catholic saint to emerge from the Holocaust, Jakub's canonization is critically important to Church officials, whose predecessors turned a blind eye to the Jewish people during that time of their greatest need. The...