Fr Cyril Axelrod, a world renowned deaf-blind Catholic priest and author of The Journey Begins, will narrate his extraordinary life experiences at a public meeting at Qrendi parish church on Friday at 7pm.
He is visiting Malta as the guest of the Deaf Ministry Team of the Maltese Archdiocese Commission for Disabled People.
Fr Cyril was born deaf into an Orthodox Jewish family in South Africa, became a Catholic in his adulthood and subsequently studied for the priesthood.
He was devastated when he gradually lost his sight due to Usher Syndrome, but went on to set up pastoral care for deaf and deaf-blind communities in many countries and has learnt several native sign languages in the course of his ministry.