He lived just 400 years after Roch. But he was also a pilgrim and accomplished some cures. Born to a family of laborers in the North of France, Benedict Labre at first, wanted to become a monk. But he couldn't adapt to the very regulated life of a monastery.

So he went on his way, his hands and pockets empty, going from church to church; they saw him a Parayle Monial and Assisi, at Monte Cassino and Loretto, at Saint James of Campostelle and Montserrat...and even at Comblence! But Rome is his favorite city. That's where he spends the last months of his life and dies exhausted by his journeys and fasts. Not many hospices for pilgrims existed in the 18th century. Does Benedict experience a lot more difficulty in finding shelter than Roch did? He would have to beg to survive. And he wouldn't be spared humiliation! He accepts it all because just one thought is on his mind: to follow Jesus on His Way of the Cross. The sanctity of this "hobo" for Jesus is made up of the immense love for Jesus that he would translate into a warm affection for his fellow pilgrims; he willingly gave the few crusts of bread he had received to those hungrier than he... In a time when the Church was very well organized, when the clergy sometimes exercised a rather stifling power, the life of Benedict Labre is a prophecy in action. It recalls that the Spirit breathes where it will, even among the rejected of society. And the Christian is only a pilgrim on the road to the Kingdom, a person always on the journey, free of earthly possessions...