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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus writes Henri Ghéon, pious French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier...
Writes Hagiographer Ghéon: "The Devil had managed to slide into his conscience the monstrous sophism that a priest of the Church can obey God while disobeying the Church; it was the one vulnerable spot-and the devil put his finger on it." M. Vianney cheated his old enemy, however, and remained...