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""THE PILGRIMAGE. 151all the faults, weaknesses, and miseries of his poor life."Yet he flinched not for all this :he bowed his head ;suffered the storm to pass over him ;made no change,absolutely none, in his resolutions or his conduct. Heprayed more than usual ; redoubled his fasts, his disciplines, and macerations ;he kept himself more closelyunited to God, and laboured no less. Whatever might bethe aspect of the heavens or the state of his heart, he wenton his way with the same energetic step, and the samecalm and tranquil bearing. No suffering of mind or bodyever had power to make him swerve one hair s breadthfrom the way of duty, or to relax in the slightestthe steady onward speed of his course."degreeThe pilgrimage of ArsCHAPTER XI.The daily labours of the holy Cure.THE pilgrimage of Ars, which, for a period of thirty years,seemed to bring back a scene from the times of St. Bernardinto the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, beganshortly after the foundation of the Providence. It owedits origin, partly to the rumours afloat of the wondersattending that work ; partly to the desire of certain holysouls to avail themselves of the spiritual direction of thesaintly cure ;partly to the throng of poor who crowded tohim for relief of their temporal wants ;but chiefly, in theopinion of Catherine Lassagne, toCure for the conversion of sinners.obtained for them was so powerfulthe prayers of M. leThe grace which hethat it went to seekthem out, and would leave them no rest till it had broughtthem to his feet." The numerous miracles wrought, oneafter another, in succeeding years, added to the concot7rse $