‘A simple, saintly life’- The legacy of Charles Untz

“Charles is an example of how to live out the faith for young teens.”

Xavier Schmidt is a seminarian, studying for the Missouri diocese in which he grew up.

Charles Untz was a Minnesotan, who died as a teenager in 2000.

The two never met.

But Schmidt attributes his vocation to Charles Untz, and as he prepares for priesthood, he hopes that Untz is praying for him.

And Schmidt is not alone in asking the intercession of Charle…