Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""""""or a deceiver.PRETERNATURAL NOISES AT NIGHT. 125Those who knew him, knew that he wouldhave preferred death to the least deviation from truth.Neither had he the temperament of a visionary ;he wasnot in the smallest degree credulous ;he had all the qualifications for a trustworthy witness good eyes, good ears,good judgment. And these things took place, not once,but a hundred and a hundred times in a year, and thatfor a period of thirty years together. They were attestedby himself a thousand times. There was no subject onwhich he was more willing to speak."In Catherine snotes, written at the very time of the beginning of thispersecution, many of these occurrences are noted down,day by day, from the mouth of M. Vianney himself.For instance :"M. le Cure has several times said to us, in the lastfew days,I don t know whether they are rats, or whetheiit is the grappin ;* but they come in great troops over mygranary, and tramp up to my bed. You would take themfor a flock .of sheep. I can scarcely sleep at all. Sometimes I take a stick and knock upon the floor, to makethem quiet ; but they go on just the same.<2d July, 1823. M. le Cur said to us, I don t knowwhether rats sing, but there isalways one singing in myroom.Oct.He climbs singing upon my bed at night..M. le Cure begged us to enlarge his palliasse,because the devil throws him out of his bed.*I did notsee the devil, added he; but he has several times seizedhold of me, and thrown me out of my bed.Oct. 18th. M. le Cure told us yesterday that thedevil had tried to kill him."The brethren of the Cure of Ars were by no means* A nickname by which M. Vianney was accustomed to call hLsinfernal enemy.