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

VlllPREFACE.lectual power without it does little in the order of grace,for souls are to be won to God. as God created andredeemed them by love and by compassion ;and itwas this which shone forth with a surpassing splendourin all the life of this great servant of Jesus, and concealed even the wonderful gifts of discernment andsupernatural power with which he was endowed.It remains only to add, that the following narrativehas been derived from the life of the saintly Cure,written at the command ofhis Diocesan, the Bishop ofBelley, by his friend and fellow-labourer, the Abb^Monnin.* By the kind permission of the Abb Came"let,Superior of the Congregation of which M. Monnin is amember, this very interesting work is now presented,in substance, to such English readers as may not haveaccess to the original,in the earnest hope that somehearts among us may thus be stirred to the veneration,and, in their measure and degree, to the imitation, ofthis devoted servant of God.HENRY EDWARD,Cardinal Archbishop.I* Curt d 4r*>par V Abb<5 Alfred Monnin. 2 v. Paris. 186J,