The Cure of Ars: The Priest Who Out-Talked the DevilMilton Lomask contributes his second volume to the Vision Books series of saints for youth 9 - 15 years old in this story of the greatly beloved Cure of Ars. Jean-Marie Vianney, a farm boy born during the French Revolution, longed to become a priest. But he could not learn Latin, and it seemed as if the humble, lovable, slow-thinking Jean-Marie would never be ordained. He did at last become a priest, and such a holy one that St. Jean-Marie Vianney is invoked as the patron saint and model of parish priests everywhere. To many he is known, not by name, but simply as "the Cure of Ars, " the parish priest who devoted his life to the little village of Ars and so successfully led his people to sanctity that he became a prime target of the devil. |
Contents
JeanMarie | 7 |
The Soldiers | 14 |
A Lonely World | 25 |
The Fool of the Family | 30 |
The Latin Lesson | 39 |
JeanMarie Becomes an Outlaw | 57 |
He Will Never Become a Priest | 74 |
A Pastor for Ars | 91 |
The Confessor | 108 |
Saint Philomena | 116 |
JeanMaries Curate | 127 |
Temptations | 137 |
Afterword | 144 |
Authors Note | 147 |
Common terms and phrases
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