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Tan (1927), 586 pages
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The definitive story of John Vianney based on the official records from the process of his beatification and canonization. Of humble education and assigned to a forgotten farmers' village, he attracted the whole world to Ars and was named the patron saint of parish priests in 1929. He ate one meal a day, slept only a few hours a night, heard confessions up to 17 hours a day, converted thousands. His body remains incorrupt. A grace-filled story of total love of God! 624 pgs, PB
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586 p.
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Because of his lack of schooling and inaptitude for academic subjects, the Cure' of ars encountered great difficulty being ordained a priest, yet only seventy years after his death he was named Patron Saint of Parochial Clergy. The devil once revealed to him that were there three such men as himself on earth, his (Satan's) kingdom would be broken. In this definitive work on the life of St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, Father Trochu has recorded the many extraordinary facts surrounding the life and vocation of the Cure' of Ars. Because they are so remarkable, he has for the most part discarded popular legend and has based his book on the official Process of Beatification and Canonization, rendering thereby an account which is at once marvelous and authentic. The reader will search long and deep in the annals of the Church to find a saint's life so unusual and inspiring as the Cure' of Ars.