00:01103 year old man earned thousands begging didn't keep anything for himself
00:14When you hear the word saint you think of godlike men and women who were alive centuries ago
00:18At the very least you don't think about people who are actually living today when you think about saints, but
00:24there are
00:25This man spent his life doing something so st. Like that his name will be remembered long after his body's
00:31been buried
00:33Dobry Dobrev who was born on July 20th?
00:361914 was a man with a spirit of a saint in fact Dobry was actually known as the saint from
00:42the village of by lovo
00:43Because of what he did each and every day for the people of his community
00:48Every morning the old man would walk 15 miles to the capital of Sofia in Bulgaria
00:52To stand in front of the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky
00:57While he was a religious man
00:58He wasn't there to speak to a priest or to preach his sermon on the corner
01:02Dobry arrived at the church every single day to ask for donations
01:05But you see Dobry wasn't interested in donations for himself
01:10Dobry was asking for donations to help out others who were in need
01:14Throughout the years Dobry managed to raise over forty four thousand dollars in donations from caring people at the church
01:21According to daily buzz Dobry gave every single dime that he'd collected to charities to restoring churches and help orphanages
01:28pay their bills
01:30Despite the fact that he collected so much money Dobry survived on a meager pension of around one hundred dollars
01:36a month
01:37Then in 2000 Dobry gave all his possessions including his home to the Orthodox Church in by lovo
01:44Ever since then Dobry had lived a non-materialistic selfless lifestyle
01:49After devoting his life to God Dobry said God gives me bread
01:53Even though Dobry had a bed of his own he'd always preferred sleeping on the floor
01:58More often than not the people who stopped to speak to the old man
02:01Who says that God is the way have broken down into tears from simply being in his presence?
02:07In a 2000 film called might Dobry said the goodwill is just and true
02:13Everything in it is good. We must not lie nor steal nor commit adultery. We must love each other as
02:19God loves us
02:21Dobry spent his entire life giving to the needy, but he never felt the need to put his good deeds
02:27on display
02:28Considering that he wore homemade clothes with simple sandals the old wise man with the long white beard looked more
02:34like a wizard than a man
02:36The townspeople adored him and quite frequently offered to pay for his bus fare when he could no longer walk
02:42the 15 miles to town
02:44Unsurprisingly Dobry always refused the offers
02:48Dobry is an extremely rare phenomenon said Bishop Tikkun from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
02:54This living saint was able to bring light to a community that suffered through an incredible amount of darkness
03:01Sadly one day the townspeople stopped seeing grandpa Dobry outside the church at the age of 103 Dobry passed away
03:08on February 13th
03:102018
03:11According to nova.bg
03:13Dobry was laid to rest in the churchyard next to the small building where he lived next to the church
03:19since the year 2000
03:21Dobry may have gone from this world
03:23But his kind giving spirit will live on to inspire others to help as he did
03:28You
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