Feastday: April 21
1818 – 1894
Saint Conrad of Parzham was a German Franciscan mystic and lay brother. He was born Carl Birndorfer in Parzham, Bavaria, Germany, on December 22, 1818. He was the ninth son in a peasant family.
He had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and each day fervently recited the Rosary. On feast days he frequently made a journey to some remote shrine of the Blessed Mother. During such pilgrimages, always made on foot, he was engaged in prayer, and when he returned in the evening, he was usually still fasting.
He became a Capuchin lay brother in 1849. For more than thirty years Conrad served as porter or doorkeeper of the shrine of Our Lady of Altotting and was known for his Marian devotions. Conrad had the gift of prophecy and of reading people’s hearts.
He died in Altotting on April 21. He was canonized in 1934.
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