July 26, 2025 • 16 mins
Discover the extraordinary life of Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, commonly known as St John Vianney, a French parish priest who is celebrated in the Catholic Church as a saint and the patron saint of all priests. Known fondly as the Curé dArs, his parish work led to a profound spiritual transformation in his community, making him an internationally recognized figure. His saintly life, dedicated ministry, and ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to Saint Philomena were all instrumental in this transformation. This brief biography, written before his canonization in 1925, offers a stirring glimpse into the life of this much-loved saint. (Summary Adapted from Wikipedia)
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Chapter five of the Life of Blessed John B. Marie
Vienni Cure of Ours. This is a LibriVox recording. All
LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
Joe Clancy, Los Angeles, California, The Life of Blessed John B.
(00:22):
Marie Vienni Cure of Ours by anonymous Chapter five. Innumerable
were the miracles worked by the Holy Man, whose history
we are relating. They resemble in their marvelous scope and variety,
those of the Divine Master, who foretold the accomplishment of
(00:42):
wanders greater than his own in the ministry of his
faithful servants. The account of the upbuilding of the House
of Providence has given us an insight into the power
of the Holy Man, who reproduced the scriptural story of
the multiplication of the loves and fisions. We have there
seen that often many persons were fed when the larder
(01:06):
and the granary were empty, another phase of the miraculous
power of Blessed Viennie's prayer to obtain help in time
of need, the results of which often gave proof of
supernatural intervention. Is seen in a good work very dear
to him. Primarily known in France as font mon, these
faond monts referred to the establishment of a fund for
(01:29):
the perpetual offering of the Holy sacrifice for some desired end.
Blessed Vienny established one thousand annual masses. The fond mont
represented a capital of forty thousand francs. Not only did
it affect a spiritual good, but going out to needy priest,
it created in itself a continuous and generous contribution to charity.
(01:53):
Some of the miraculous interventions of Providence that touch his
heart most deeply are found in his efforts in this direction.
We shall cite but one a member of the household
of Providence relates it. Once. When Father Vienny desired to
make a fond mont in his church in honor of
the Heart of Mary, he prayed, O, my Mother, if
(02:15):
this work is agreeable to THEE, procure for me the
funds to do it. That same day, after the Catechism,
he said to us, I have found two hundred francs
in my drawer. How good God is well, exclaimed John
Marie Cheney. Since it is miraculous silver. We must keep
some it yes, replied the cure, it is eslesh money.
(02:38):
Jean Marie kept four of the five franc pieces, replacing
them by others. She regretted she had not done the
same with all the pieces. When a little later he
wished to increase his fond mont Father Vienny prayed again
in the same vein, adding, however, the request that the
two hundred francs must be given to him that evening,
(03:00):
or the gift would not be considered an answer to
his petition. It was but a little while later when
a benefactor approached him with an offering of three hundred francs,
his prayer was answered. He took only the sum which
he had prayed for. It was in the unceasing war
that he waged against the desecration of the Lord's day,
that his people beheld frequently their Saintly Pastor's power over
(03:22):
the elements. We shall sight an instance. One Sunday in July,
there was a full harvest, the wheat bending to the
earth during the high mass, a violent wind arose, and
threatening clouds gathered. A destructive tempest was apparently about to break.
The Holy Priest entered the pulpit forbade his people to
(03:43):
touch their crops that day, and promised them a continuation
of good weather sufficient for the gathering inn of the harvest.
His prediction was verified. The storm passed over, and no
rain fell for twelve days. In the depths of human souls.
Miracles abounded in ours, the conversion of centners. The Holy
Cure lived for them. He entered upon his thorny way
(04:06):
of heroic penance. His whole life was characterized by prayer, penance,
and self abnegation. All counted as nothing if he could
win the conversion of his parish, dreaming not of a
world to be won from beyond its borders. His first
great conversion was that of a woman, prominent in the
Gensenous sect for her attachment to error and the indiscreet
(04:30):
ardor of her proceltism. She was present during vespers in
the Church of Ours on a feast of the Blessed
Virgin in the early days of the Cure's pastorate. To
the surprise of all, she entered the confessional after the service.
The words of the Holy Confessor in the sacred Tribunal
finished the work that his very aspect alone had begun.
(04:52):
Her conversion was thorough and lasting. She withdrew from her
former associates and took up her abode in the little
village of Ours. Another miracle of grace chosen for many
is the following, briefly told. A learned geologist was led
to visit ours. As a boy, he had made his
first communion during the reign of Terror. Left an orphan
(05:13):
at the age of twelve years, he was adopted by
an army officer, whom he accompanied to Egypt. His religious
experiences had been varied, for he had tested Mohommonism, Judaism, Protestantism,
and had been a disciple of Channal peire En, Fantine
and Cabet. On his first visit to Ours, he sat
(05:34):
facing the door through which the curee would come to
say Mass. His own words tell the result. His eyes
meant mine. It was but a look, yet it penetrated
to the depths of my heart. I felt myself crushed
under his gaze. After the Mass, this man was drawn
by an invisible and irresistible force into the sacristry where
(05:54):
stood the confessional. The grace of her return to the
faith of his youth was given to him. He died,
and holy sentiments two years afterwards. Such spiritual marvels worked
by the blessed Vienny were of frequent occurrence. He's wept
when sinners refused to weep, and they left his feet
like other Augustines to comfort the mother bowed down with
(06:16):
sorrow because of their sins. One young man, long lost
to his God, had been induced to go to Ours
before leaving for the army. The holy priest singled him
out among the crowd and beckoned to the young man,
who was seized with a sudden trembling. The sacristy door
closed upon them, and a miracle was wrought there. And
then on one who had lost his faith, his honor,
(06:38):
and his home. He came out in tears, remained at
Ours to make a retreat, and entered in austere religious
order to end his days in heroic penance. Such are
the types of miracles of the spiritual order the dearest
to him, worked by the Holy Pastor of ours, whose
worst reproach to the hardened sinner was what a pity
(06:58):
it is. At the hour of death, God will say
to you, why have you offended me? I, who have
loved you so much? The power to lay bare the
hidden sins which the cure's unknown penitent concealed from him,
stands forth prominently in his life story, and wrought many conversions.
So too that other power, which divined the future misuse
(07:21):
of recovery, had sent back the pilgrim helped, not bodily,
but with the healing of patience and resignation under some
long born affliction. Again the similar power to see the
future augmentation of holiness and a soul under physical affliction,
and God's will that no cure be wrought, And still
another to see some pending cross awaiting at home, a
(07:42):
pilgrim of whom humanly speaking, he knew nothing, and to
hasten his departure, or to know by interior sight alone
a cure wrought at a distance. Surely miraculous gifts, and
all were possessed by the Holy Curee. Bodily ills miraculously
cured through Father Vinny, were affected, cures of the mentally afflicted,
(08:04):
of paralytics from birth or accident, of sufferers from cancer
and bronchial affection. There are those whose tongue have never spoken,
whose ear had never heard, whose eye had never seen,
until the Holy Cureer's word had gone forth. Make a
novena to Saint Philamina, I will pray with you. A
(08:25):
nervous malady racked the being of Mademoiselle Zeaul Padille, and
deprived her of the power of walking, of kneeling, of
reading and listening to reading, and of eating without excruciating pain.
Expert medical treatment was secured at home, and a thorough
test was made of health resorts, all without avail, until
(08:46):
at last the pilgrimage was made to ours and the
novena was said, resulting in a complete cure, as attested
to by a physician who had known the case well
for six years out of the eight which the patient
had suffered. A house its course of removal fell and
buried under the ruins. A little child and her grandmother.
The mother of the little one escaped and ran about distracted.
(09:08):
While the fruitless search went on. Some one ran to
make the accident known to Father Vienny. He'd knelt first
in prayer, then hastened to the spot, blessed the ruins,
and stood by encouraging the workmen who were making the search.
The grandmother was rescued unharmed. The child was found after
a long imprisonment in the ruins. She showed not the
slightest sign of injury. A member of the Curee's household
(09:31):
gave an old cap that the cue had worn to
a poor woman as an alms. The beautiful thought came
to her, the holy Curee is a saint. If I faith,
my child will be cured. The boy had an abscess
on the head. She put the cap on him that evening.
When she uncovered him to dress the wound, she found
that the sword had disappeared. The child had been cured.
(09:53):
To day one wrote from Mars, we have had a
very remarkable cure as of a young nun from the
Alps whose tongue had been completely paralyzed for three years.
After her recovery from typhoid fever, she could converse only
by riding on a slate. The day on which she
finished her in novena, just as she was about to
make her thanksgiving after Holy Communion, she felt that her
(10:15):
tongue was articulating the axe. She now can speak. I
have seen and heard her. The curate of her home parish,
and the physician testified to her recovery. One of the
remarkable cures instantly and publicly effected in presence of all
the Pilgrims was that of a young man from Pud
(10:36):
de Dome who could walk only with difficulty and with
the aid of crutches. My father, do you think I
will leave my crutches? Here? Was his off repeated question
during the novena. On the feasts of the Assumption, he
intercepted the Holy Priest as he came from the sacristrey
into the crowded church for the evening exercises, and again
put the question, Yes, my friend, if you of faith
(10:58):
was the reply. Instantly the power was given to the
young man to walk unaid it and hastened to Saint
Philamina's chapel to leave his crutches there. His gratitude with
the life long consecration of himself to God in the
institute of the Brothers of the Holy Family, miracles of
this kind caused the priests considerable embarrassment. He sought to
(11:18):
hide from the public eye the marvelous results of his
God given power manifested daily in his parish. His dear
little Saint Philamina, who never failed him in his hour
of need, heard many plates from him in which he
charged her with working the marvels that were effected through
his ministry. Such was the humility of the wonder worker
of our own age. The gift of a medal of
(11:40):
Saint Philimina was often the preliminary manifestation of miraculous power.
This gift was followed by a request that a novena
be made to the Saint, father Vienny promising to pray also,
though his result was frequently the desired miracle, which was
in reality the outcome of the Cure's powerful pleading with God,
the less it could easily be laid at the door
(12:02):
of his little dear saint. This was especially so on
occasions when the sufferers were not brought to the village,
when the curers did not take place until the afflicted
ones were far distant from the ordinary scene of the miracles.
A note where the instance in which the Good God
seemed as it were to play into Vienni's hands at
times by allowing Saint Philhemina to have the full credit
(12:24):
of the miracle was that of the poor wandering musician.
He came to the Holy Cure begging the latter to
heal his lame child. After persuading this man to go
to confession, he blessed him and send him home, making
a promise to mend his evil ways and to cease
carrying on an abuse against which the priest waged a
relentless war, namely the village dances, which were held on
(12:46):
Sundays and festivals. When the musician entered his home, he
broke his violin and cast the pieces into the fire,
to the great dismay of his wife, who saw their
family means of sustenance consumed. But his lame child, crying
out with joy, leaped across the room to welcome his father.
The child was completely cured. Father Vienne's tenderness was once
(13:08):
deeply stirred at the sight of a mother bearing on
her back a paralyzed boy of eight years, a cripple
from birth. The curate was apparently turning a deaf ear
to the mother's repeated appeals for the cure of her child,
content with giving them a glance of pity and sympathy
and a blessing. Yet, as the result seems to show,
his soul must have spoken some word to the soul
(13:30):
of the child, audible to none other. At night, the
mother left the church with a disappointed heart, while undressing
her little son and a lodging near by, the boy
told her she must go out early in the morning
to buy him a pair of new shoes. Far said he,
Father VIENNI promised that I would walk tomorrow. Not a
word had been spoken to the child, but his mother
(13:51):
did his bidding and put the new shoes on him.
The miracle, delayed in the crowded church, was wrought at
the moment in the lowly lodge room. The child, crippled
from birth, ran through the church crying, I am cured,
I am cured. The miraculous power of the curate's sanctity,
which during thirty years attracted considerable attention, could have been
(14:12):
welcomed by him for one reason alone, that it helped
so much in the aim of his life, the conversion
of sinners. That it was the reward not only of
his simple faith, but of the heroic and unceasing penitence
which he performed in order to secure the salvation of souls,
seems implied in words of his own. A friend in
the priesthood once said to him, when a much needed
(14:35):
sum of money had come in an astonishing way, tell me,
Father vi Any the way to work miracles. The holy man,
with a serious air, replied, my friend there's nothing which
disconcerts the devil so much and attracts the grace of
God more than fasting and prayerful watching his life, it
may be truly said, was one incessant prayer and vigil
(14:59):
as simple ole peasant has beautifully said. It is not
astonishing that he works miracles. He is a servant of God.
God obeys his servants. They tell us of marvelous things
that took place here, said a pilgrim, who but echoed
the words of many. But the grand miracle of ours
is the life so penitent and laborous of the curee.
(15:21):
No miracles showed more clearly his extraordinary gifts and graces
than the power which his spirit possessed over his poor
emaciated body. And no miracle was greater than his absolute
control over his physical state when he seemed on the
verge of dissolution, a control that enabled him to bear
the overpowering burden of his incessant labors for souls without
(15:44):
sinking under the load. A miracle alone can explain this
extraordinary existence. End of Chapter five. Miracles wrought by the
cure of Ours
Chapter five of the Life of Blessed John B. Marie
Vienni Cure of Ours. This is a LibriVox recording. All
LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
Joe Clancy, Los Angeles, California, The Life of Blessed John B.
(00:22):
Marie Vienni Cure of Ours by anonymous Chapter five. Innumerable
were the miracles worked by the Holy Man, whose history
we are relating. They resemble in their marvelous scope and variety,
those of the Divine Master, who foretold the accomplishment of
(00:42):
wanders greater than his own in the ministry of his
faithful servants. The account of the upbuilding of the House
of Providence has given us an insight into the power
of the Holy Man, who reproduced the scriptural story of
the multiplication of the loves and fisions. We have there
seen that often many persons were fed when the larder
(01:06):
and the granary were empty, another phase of the miraculous
power of Blessed Viennie's prayer to obtain help in time
of need, the results of which often gave proof of
supernatural intervention. Is seen in a good work very dear
to him. Primarily known in France as font mon, these
faond monts referred to the establishment of a fund for
(01:29):
the perpetual offering of the Holy sacrifice for some desired end.
Blessed Vienny established one thousand annual masses. The fond mont
represented a capital of forty thousand francs. Not only did
it affect a spiritual good, but going out to needy priest,
it created in itself a continuous and generous contribution to charity.
(01:53):
Some of the miraculous interventions of Providence that touch his
heart most deeply are found in his efforts in this direction.
We shall cite but one a member of the household
of Providence relates it. Once. When Father Vienny desired to
make a fond mont in his church in honor of
the Heart of Mary, he prayed, O, my Mother, if
(02:15):
this work is agreeable to THEE, procure for me the
funds to do it. That same day, after the Catechism,
he said to us, I have found two hundred francs
in my drawer. How good God is well, exclaimed John
Marie Cheney. Since it is miraculous silver. We must keep
some it yes, replied the cure, it is eslesh money.
(02:38):
Jean Marie kept four of the five franc pieces, replacing
them by others. She regretted she had not done the
same with all the pieces. When a little later he
wished to increase his fond mont Father Vienny prayed again
in the same vein, adding, however, the request that the
two hundred francs must be given to him that evening,
(03:00):
or the gift would not be considered an answer to
his petition. It was but a little while later when
a benefactor approached him with an offering of three hundred francs,
his prayer was answered. He took only the sum which
he had prayed for. It was in the unceasing war
that he waged against the desecration of the Lord's day,
that his people beheld frequently their Saintly Pastor's power over
(03:22):
the elements. We shall sight an instance. One Sunday in July,
there was a full harvest, the wheat bending to the
earth during the high mass, a violent wind arose, and
threatening clouds gathered. A destructive tempest was apparently about to break.
The Holy Priest entered the pulpit forbade his people to
(03:43):
touch their crops that day, and promised them a continuation
of good weather sufficient for the gathering inn of the harvest.
His prediction was verified. The storm passed over, and no
rain fell for twelve days. In the depths of human souls.
Miracles abounded in ours, the conversion of centners. The Holy
Cure lived for them. He entered upon his thorny way
(04:06):
of heroic penance. His whole life was characterized by prayer, penance,
and self abnegation. All counted as nothing if he could
win the conversion of his parish, dreaming not of a
world to be won from beyond its borders. His first
great conversion was that of a woman, prominent in the
Gensenous sect for her attachment to error and the indiscreet
(04:30):
ardor of her proceltism. She was present during vespers in
the Church of Ours on a feast of the Blessed
Virgin in the early days of the Cure's pastorate. To
the surprise of all, she entered the confessional after the service.
The words of the Holy Confessor in the sacred Tribunal
finished the work that his very aspect alone had begun.
(04:52):
Her conversion was thorough and lasting. She withdrew from her
former associates and took up her abode in the little
village of Ours. Another miracle of grace chosen for many
is the following, briefly told. A learned geologist was led
to visit ours. As a boy, he had made his
first communion during the reign of Terror. Left an orphan
(05:13):
at the age of twelve years, he was adopted by
an army officer, whom he accompanied to Egypt. His religious
experiences had been varied, for he had tested Mohommonism, Judaism, Protestantism,
and had been a disciple of Channal peire En, Fantine
and Cabet. On his first visit to Ours, he sat
(05:34):
facing the door through which the curee would come to
say Mass. His own words tell the result. His eyes
meant mine. It was but a look, yet it penetrated
to the depths of my heart. I felt myself crushed
under his gaze. After the Mass, this man was drawn
by an invisible and irresistible force into the sacristry where
(05:54):
stood the confessional. The grace of her return to the
faith of his youth was given to him. He died,
and holy sentiments two years afterwards. Such spiritual marvels worked
by the blessed Vienny were of frequent occurrence. He's wept
when sinners refused to weep, and they left his feet
like other Augustines to comfort the mother bowed down with
(06:16):
sorrow because of their sins. One young man, long lost
to his God, had been induced to go to Ours
before leaving for the army. The holy priest singled him
out among the crowd and beckoned to the young man,
who was seized with a sudden trembling. The sacristy door
closed upon them, and a miracle was wrought there. And
then on one who had lost his faith, his honor,
(06:38):
and his home. He came out in tears, remained at
Ours to make a retreat, and entered in austere religious
order to end his days in heroic penance. Such are
the types of miracles of the spiritual order the dearest
to him, worked by the Holy Pastor of ours, whose
worst reproach to the hardened sinner was what a pity
(06:58):
it is. At the hour of death, God will say
to you, why have you offended me? I, who have
loved you so much? The power to lay bare the
hidden sins which the cure's unknown penitent concealed from him,
stands forth prominently in his life story, and wrought many conversions.
So too that other power, which divined the future misuse
(07:21):
of recovery, had sent back the pilgrim helped, not bodily,
but with the healing of patience and resignation under some
long born affliction. Again the similar power to see the
future augmentation of holiness and a soul under physical affliction,
and God's will that no cure be wrought, And still
another to see some pending cross awaiting at home, a
(07:42):
pilgrim of whom humanly speaking, he knew nothing, and to
hasten his departure, or to know by interior sight alone
a cure wrought at a distance. Surely miraculous gifts, and
all were possessed by the Holy Curee. Bodily ills miraculously
cured through Father Vinny, were affected, cures of the mentally afflicted,
(08:04):
of paralytics from birth or accident, of sufferers from cancer
and bronchial affection. There are those whose tongue have never spoken,
whose ear had never heard, whose eye had never seen,
until the Holy Cureer's word had gone forth. Make a
novena to Saint Philamina, I will pray with you. A
(08:25):
nervous malady racked the being of Mademoiselle Zeaul Padille, and
deprived her of the power of walking, of kneeling, of
reading and listening to reading, and of eating without excruciating pain.
Expert medical treatment was secured at home, and a thorough
test was made of health resorts, all without avail, until
(08:46):
at last the pilgrimage was made to ours and the
novena was said, resulting in a complete cure, as attested
to by a physician who had known the case well
for six years out of the eight which the patient
had suffered. A house its course of removal fell and
buried under the ruins. A little child and her grandmother.
The mother of the little one escaped and ran about distracted.
(09:08):
While the fruitless search went on. Some one ran to
make the accident known to Father Vienny. He'd knelt first
in prayer, then hastened to the spot, blessed the ruins,
and stood by encouraging the workmen who were making the search.
The grandmother was rescued unharmed. The child was found after
a long imprisonment in the ruins. She showed not the
slightest sign of injury. A member of the Curee's household
(09:31):
gave an old cap that the cue had worn to
a poor woman as an alms. The beautiful thought came
to her, the holy Curee is a saint. If I faith,
my child will be cured. The boy had an abscess
on the head. She put the cap on him that evening.
When she uncovered him to dress the wound, she found
that the sword had disappeared. The child had been cured.
(09:53):
To day one wrote from Mars, we have had a
very remarkable cure as of a young nun from the
Alps whose tongue had been completely paralyzed for three years.
After her recovery from typhoid fever, she could converse only
by riding on a slate. The day on which she
finished her in novena, just as she was about to
make her thanksgiving after Holy Communion, she felt that her
(10:15):
tongue was articulating the axe. She now can speak. I
have seen and heard her. The curate of her home parish,
and the physician testified to her recovery. One of the
remarkable cures instantly and publicly effected in presence of all
the Pilgrims was that of a young man from Pud
(10:36):
de Dome who could walk only with difficulty and with
the aid of crutches. My father, do you think I
will leave my crutches? Here? Was his off repeated question
during the novena. On the feasts of the Assumption, he
intercepted the Holy Priest as he came from the sacristrey
into the crowded church for the evening exercises, and again
put the question, Yes, my friend, if you of faith
(10:58):
was the reply. Instantly the power was given to the
young man to walk unaid it and hastened to Saint
Philamina's chapel to leave his crutches there. His gratitude with
the life long consecration of himself to God in the
institute of the Brothers of the Holy Family, miracles of
this kind caused the priests considerable embarrassment. He sought to
(11:18):
hide from the public eye the marvelous results of his
God given power manifested daily in his parish. His dear
little Saint Philamina, who never failed him in his hour
of need, heard many plates from him in which he
charged her with working the marvels that were effected through
his ministry. Such was the humility of the wonder worker
of our own age. The gift of a medal of
(11:40):
Saint Philimina was often the preliminary manifestation of miraculous power.
This gift was followed by a request that a novena
be made to the Saint, father Vienny promising to pray also,
though his result was frequently the desired miracle, which was
in reality the outcome of the Cure's powerful pleading with God,
the less it could easily be laid at the door
(12:02):
of his little dear saint. This was especially so on
occasions when the sufferers were not brought to the village,
when the curers did not take place until the afflicted
ones were far distant from the ordinary scene of the miracles.
A note where the instance in which the Good God
seemed as it were to play into Vienni's hands at
times by allowing Saint Philhemina to have the full credit
(12:24):
of the miracle was that of the poor wandering musician.
He came to the Holy Cure begging the latter to
heal his lame child. After persuading this man to go
to confession, he blessed him and send him home, making
a promise to mend his evil ways and to cease
carrying on an abuse against which the priest waged a
relentless war, namely the village dances, which were held on
(12:46):
Sundays and festivals. When the musician entered his home, he
broke his violin and cast the pieces into the fire,
to the great dismay of his wife, who saw their
family means of sustenance consumed. But his lame child, crying
out with joy, leaped across the room to welcome his father.
The child was completely cured. Father Vienne's tenderness was once
(13:08):
deeply stirred at the sight of a mother bearing on
her back a paralyzed boy of eight years, a cripple
from birth. The curate was apparently turning a deaf ear
to the mother's repeated appeals for the cure of her child,
content with giving them a glance of pity and sympathy
and a blessing. Yet, as the result seems to show,
his soul must have spoken some word to the soul
(13:30):
of the child, audible to none other. At night, the
mother left the church with a disappointed heart, while undressing
her little son and a lodging near by, the boy
told her she must go out early in the morning
to buy him a pair of new shoes. Far said he,
Father VIENNI promised that I would walk tomorrow. Not a
word had been spoken to the child, but his mother
(13:51):
did his bidding and put the new shoes on him.
The miracle, delayed in the crowded church, was wrought at
the moment in the lowly lodge room. The child, crippled
from birth, ran through the church crying, I am cured,
I am cured. The miraculous power of the curate's sanctity,
which during thirty years attracted considerable attention, could have been
(14:12):
welcomed by him for one reason alone, that it helped
so much in the aim of his life, the conversion
of sinners. That it was the reward not only of
his simple faith, but of the heroic and unceasing penitence
which he performed in order to secure the salvation of souls,
seems implied in words of his own. A friend in
the priesthood once said to him, when a much needed
(14:35):
sum of money had come in an astonishing way, tell me,
Father vi Any the way to work miracles. The holy man,
with a serious air, replied, my friend there's nothing which
disconcerts the devil so much and attracts the grace of
God more than fasting and prayerful watching his life, it
may be truly said, was one incessant prayer and vigil
(14:59):
as simple ole peasant has beautifully said. It is not
astonishing that he works miracles. He is a servant of God.
God obeys his servants. They tell us of marvelous things
that took place here, said a pilgrim, who but echoed
the words of many. But the grand miracle of ours
is the life so penitent and laborous of the curee.
(15:21):
No miracles showed more clearly his extraordinary gifts and graces
than the power which his spirit possessed over his poor
emaciated body. And no miracle was greater than his absolute
control over his physical state when he seemed on the
verge of dissolution, a control that enabled him to bear
the overpowering burden of his incessant labors for souls without
(15:44):
sinking under the load. A miracle alone can explain this
extraordinary existence. End of Chapter five. Miracles wrought by the
cure of Ours
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