In this tender and intimate video, biographer Kevin Wells and his wife Krista share the raw story of a parish priest turned hermit, Father Martin Flum, who orchestrated the slow resurrection of Krista from the nightmare of her deep wounds and addiction during COVID19.

In the journey from darkness to light, three lives—Krista, Kevin, and Father Flum—became forever entwined. It is a deeper kind of love story that Kevin and Krista tell, one that culminated in the dark spring of 2020, as a strange fear pressed down upon the world and Krista spent most nights drinking away longheld shame. When a nearuniversal chorus of politicians, medical professionals, and Catholic clergy megaphoned the command to “isolate,” Kevin couldn’t imagine a more dooming word for his family, his marriage, and the life of his wife.

Yet God had other plans. the Wells’ honest tale of inner crisis and hopefilled resurrection takes readers on a spiritual rollercoaster, offering a penetrating exploration of the sacramental grace of marriage and the mysterious movement of God in dry, lonely places.

The Hermit is a true account of marital survival, a holy priest, redemption, and even the miraculous, where imprisoned shame and sin are transformed into the joy of freedom. ‪@kevinwells1975‬ kevinwells.org

Kevin's memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press in the autumn of 2024.