(OSV News) -- When Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens was a young priest studying in Rome, the Missionaries of Charity introduced him to a paraplegic man living in Ghent, Belgium. The man, Fernand, had hoped to become a priest, but a month before he planned to enter seminary, he contracted a disease that paralyzed him, allowing him only to move his head and squeeze his right hand. When Bishop Cozzens met him, he had been bedridden for 50 years.
