Hajj doctor: “In the family, I am the only one to carry the rosary.”

Gudrun Salyer – Vatican City

What makes Dr. Alexander Darbinjan private, 42 years old, Saxony, among the twenty thousand pilgrims from the jubilee of patients and the world of health?

It is Protestant and comes from one of the most scientists on the planet. In ancient East Germany, only a small minority belongs to the Catholic Church.

He adds that the jubilee is an opportunity to “express gratitude, atone for guilt and seek hope.”

In every patient I try to see the image of God

Alexander is 42 years old, works at Babeten Hospital, and has three children. The way to live the medical profession is deeply rooted in faith. “I really try to see the image of God in every patient,” he explains.

Darbinjan is not strange to Hajj: Once he travels to Kamino de Santiago, in stages, with his mother and brother. Rome is now a different stage, and perhaps more intense. Although he left alone, he does not feel lonely.

The Pope is completely confident in God

In his family, he is the closest to religious practice. “I am the person who prays every day, the person who reads rosy,” says with a smile.

He admits that he hopes that Pope Francis will see on Sunday’s Mass. “I have recently read his CV,” the doctor says, even with his illness, and I trust him as good as it is.

Smalls of faith in secular Saxony

In a land like Saxonia, where Christian faith is sometimes invisible, Darbinjan finds small signs of light in the daily work life: an Orthodox Roman colleague who can share his faith, and he is an old patient who was thanking him this week by saying “God bless” all simple, but precious moments.

“Christians are they are,” says Alexander Darbinjan. And in Rome, these days, he feels a living part of a big thing. With a rosary in his pocket, light heart … and gratitude in his eyes.