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

"VIPREPACK.intellectual pride of this age, inflated by science, thatGod has chosen from the midst of the learned, as Hisinstrument of surpassing works of grace upon thehearts of men, one of the least cultivated of the pastorsof His Church.It would be needless to anticipate the outline ofthe following narrative, which is brief in itself ;and forthis Preface one or two general observations will suffice.No one can read the life of the Cur4 of Ars withoutbeingreminded of that of St. Francis and his companions. There is a homely and rural beauty aboutit which vividly recalls the plains of "Dmbriaand theirsimple inhabitants; Dardilly, Ecully, and the "Chantemerleremind us of Foligno, Perugia, and Gli Angeli;and the lowly and lonely pastor wandering among thecorn-fields and the orchards of Ars is such a picture ofevangelical povertyFrancesco.as we read in the Fioretti di SanAnother supernatural beauty in this life is thepeculiar nature of the miracles by which God manifested His love and care of His servant ;such as, themultiplication of the corn in the grenier, the wine in thebarrel, and the flour under the hand that was kneadingit for the oven. No one can read them without remembering the lives of the Prophets Elias and Eliseus, withthe wonderful and homely beauty of their miracles,the visible revelations of the loving Providence whichinvisibly is interwoven with all our lives, and ministersto all our needs.And lastly, it is impossibleto read of the davs of