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S4THE CUR* OF ARS.mi ad. During that interval, he had grown much in reputation among men, and although his renown had notreached the height which we have seen it attain in thelast fifteen years of his life, there was already a greatsensation about him. Men came to him from all parts :the good for edification, sinners to pour their sins and remorse into the bosom of the man of God. The miracleof his life, so inconceivable in its austerity, excited thewonder and admiration of all. It was, indeed, incomprehensible how he could live on so small an amount of nourishment.Many other marvels were related of him; andand unwonted in ourthese rumours, strangebeen since fully confirmed."days, haveSurely, as he passed across that college courtyard,God (in the saintly priest s own words) passed with him,and impressed that ideal of mingled austerity and sweetness, the very type of sacerdotal sanctity, upon thosechildren s hearts.CHAPTER VI.Foundation of the ProvidenceMiraculous interpositionsattending it.IT was in the year 1825, the seventh of his ministry atArs, that M. Vianney founded the asylum for orphan anddestitute girls, which, under the name of Providence, became afterwards the model of somanyinstitutions of thesame kind throughout the length and breadth of France.The miracles which illustrated the commencement of thishumble and unostentatious work of charity laid the foundation of the wide-spreadfame which attracted multitudes to Ars, who would never otherwise have heard ofthe sanctity of its holy cure*.