The Three Francises

Bro. Mickey McGrath OSFS is an artist, author, story-teller and retreat director who currently lives and works in Camden, NJ. A native of Philadelphia, Brother Mickey has been a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for forty-seven years. For the past thirty-three years, Bro. Mickey has taught and worked at the Grunewald Guild, an interfaith art community devoted to the intersections of art and religious faith in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. In recent years, he has offered webinars and taught Graduate Spirituality summer classes at Boston College and the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He has published more than twenty award-winning books and has just received a First Place Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers and a Second Place Award from the Catholic Media Association for his latest book, Madonnas of Color. He travels throughout the United States and Canada in order to share his firm belief that Beauty will indeed heal and save our broken world.
“We pray best before beauty.” St. Francis de Sales
“Artists are the apostles of beauty.” Pope Francis