![]() ![]() Like so many other Saints, Jean Baptiste Vianney enjoyed the priceless advantage of being born of truly Christian parents. The cause of all this stir was the lowly yet incomparable priest whose story is to be briefly told in these pages. ![]() Between 18I its name was upon the lips of countless thousands and so great was the affluence of pilgrims that the railway company serving the district had to open a special booking office at Lyons to deal with the traffic between that great city and the little hamlet of Ars. Less than a century ago a tiny village of provincial France was for many years the hub of the religious life of the whole country. ![]() JEAN MARIE BAPTISTE VIANNEY, 1786-1859)Įver since the Sun of righteousness vanished from men's view, the heaven of holy Church has been illumined through the centuries by the shining light of countless Saints and even as the brightness of the stars increases as the night advances, so, as we recede from the blessed days of His mortal life, Our Lord sends into the world Saint after Saint whose lives seem to shine with ever-increasing lustre. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |