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

"The"68 THE CURE OF ARS.Mugnano, in the Neapolitan territory, where many signalmiracles were wrought at the shrine of the young martyr.The devotion spread from Italy into France, where newwonders attested her power with God, Who chose, as theagent for promoting the glory of His saint, the humblecure of an obscure village..Mysterious and wonderful is the sympathy which thrillsthrough the communion of saints, unbroken by distance,undimmed by time, unchilled by death The child went!forth from her mother s arms to die for Christ ;the lictor saxe cropped the budding lily, and pious hands gathered itup, and laid it in the tomb ;and so fifteen centuries wentby, and none on earth thought upon the virgin martyr,who was following the Lamb whithersoever He went, tillthe time came when the Lord would have her glory toappear ; and then He chose a championlonely toil-worn priest, to whom He had givenfor her in thea heart aschildlike, and a love as heroic, as her own ;and Fie gaveher to be the helpmate of his labours, and bade her standby him to shelter his humility behind the brightness ofher glory, lest he should be affrighted at the knowledgeof his own power with God.love of the Cure of Ars," says M. Monuin, forhis dear tittle saint, as he called her, was almost chivalrous.There was the most touching sympathy between them.She granted every thing to his prayers he refused nothing;to her love. He set down to her account all the gracesand wonders which contributed to the celebrity of the pilgrimage of Ars. It was all her work ; he had nothingwhatever to do with it."At the close of the fifth year of M. Vianney s laboursat Ars, his superiors determined to place him where hisburning zeal for the salvation of souls might have a wider