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    The document summarizes the life and sanctity of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, known as the Curé d'Ars. It describes how his reputation as a holy priest led thousands of pilgrims to visit him daily to confess their sins or see a saint. It details his daily masses, catechism classes, and confessions that lasted for hours. It outlines the numerous miracles and virtues he demonstrated throughout his life, which led to his canonization as a saint after his death.

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    12.

    The Crowds Come to Ars


    - His reputation as a holy priest became so
    widespread that in 1827, pilgrims started
    to come. They came in the hope of seeing
    a saint…or of confessing to him their sins
    - From 1830–1859, a daily average of some
    400 travelers arrived at Ars.
    - visitors were standing, in great numbers, in
    the old churchyard and even in the
    adjoining streets, waiting for their turn
    - Pilgrims who could not find a fine lodge or
    hotel in Ars camped out all night in the
    fields found the village just to wait for their
    turn to see or confess to him
    13. Mass and Catechism
    Classes
    - When he celebrates the Holy Eucharist,
    he never took more than 30 mins.
    - He acquired the best liturgical vestments
    possible and used them with delight in
    his masses
    - He would become completely lost in
    God, sometimes he would cry
    - The collection of his catechism and
    preachings was published in 1864
    - He had a simple and natural eloquence
    (sample sermons are found in the book)
    14. In the Confessional
    - For about 30 years, the Cure
    d’Ars almost literally shut
    himself up inside the
    confessional
    - He possessed the gift of
    reading into the souls and
    giving them the best possible
    advice for their sins…
    - He was both strict to the
    hardest of sinners, and kind to
    those truly repentant ones
    15 - 16. The Last Twenty Years

    - He longed to leave the parish


    once for all: More than once he
    asked his bishop’s permission to
    retire into a monastery: either
    Trappist or Carthusian
    - On Sept. 11, 1843, he attempted
    to leave the place, only to retrace
    back his steps after he had
    travelled for more than 20 miles
    already!
    - Providence had ceased to
    be an orphanage and
    became a formal school
    reserved for village girls
    - He put up a foundation and
    also an Association for lay
    mission work: “Association
    for the Propagation of the
    Faith”
    - His Bishop made him
    honorary canon of his
    chapter
    - On August 11, 1855, he
    was nominated to the rank
    of chevalier in the Imperial
    17. The Human Side of the Cure D’ Ars

    - He was a little priest, his


    shoulders rather bent, had
    blue eyes, his face had deep
    wrinkles and set in a frame of
    long white hair
    - He was a very polite human
    being
    - He retained his naturally good
    personality: charming
    expressions and a sense of
    humor
    - Although he possessed a
    certain gift of reading the
    depths of one’s soul, he was
    also keenly observant in
    spotting the weaknesses
    and defects of everyone he
    met
    - He also had a special
    affection for children and at
    times, he was like Jesus
    being surrounded by these
    innocent and small human
    beings
    18. The Saint
    There were countless evidences and witnesses to the
    sanctity of the Cure d’Ars:
    - His last doctor, Jean Baptiste Saunier, who
    visited him from 1842 to 1859, considered
    him the “perfect model of all the virtues”
    - A parish priest of a neighboring town said of
    him “I have never seen a truer copy of the
    divine Master”
    - He possessed virtues to a heroic degree: he
    practiced during his lifetime all his duties as
    a priest in an outstanding fashion
    - It was his love of God and his enthusiasm
    for the glory of God that inspired in him
    such a devotion for souls and such
    compassion for sinners
    - His life was truly spent in long hours of
    crushing ministry without interruption
    - Although he was being admired as a
    celebrity, he never became proud of it: “I
    am the last of men!” he’d say
    - He mortified his senses to maximum
    - His meals were spartan in austerity: boiled
    potatoes eaten cold or even when spoiled
    - he was wearing round his waist an iron chain
    an inch thick with spikes sticking out of it; he
    also wore iron bracelets with sharp spikes on
    both his arms
    - He wore a hair shirt which he never took off
    (as evidenced by the sore it gave him)
    19-20. Miracles in the Life of the Cure D’ Ars

    - His miracles included cures, supernatural


    intuitions and mystical experiences,
    instantaneous transformation of guilty souls,
    immediate cure of the crippled and the sick
    - He was able to probe deep into the person’s
    conscience and revealed their secrets, foretold
    the future and pierced with his gaze into the
    mysteries of the next world
    - On many occasions, he would mention the
    name of someone whom he never met before
    and tell him his sins or his future or his present
    ordeal and its solution
    - One night, a girl who was coming to consult him
    in the sacristy about a very serious problem, saw
    him in ecstasy;
    - on a similar scenario, a priest saw him being lifted up in
    his kneeler while reciting the evening prayers, his face
    was transfigured and his head was surrounded by a
    halo.
    21. Death and Glorification

    - The Curé himself foretold the day of his own


    death
    - Days before his death he was still hearing
    confessions, albeit suffering from occasional
    suffocations due to an overcrowded church
    - At 2 am, August 4, 1859, Thursday, he
    passed away peacefully
    A multitude of pilgrims, admirers and
    parishioners gathered on the morning of
    Saturday, Aug.6, to escort the saint’s
    coffin to its last rest: 6,000 thousand lay
    people, 300 priests
    The entire Church knew that a saintly
    priest had just died
    - Nov. 21, 1862 – March 6, 1865:
    Click to edit Master text styles Ordinary’s Process (the diocese
    Second level established a committee to
    ● Third level
    inquire into the life, virtues,
    miracles and writings of the
    ● Fourth level
    Curé d’Ars
    ● Fifth level
    - Feb. 6, 1866: start of “Apostolic
    Process” (the diocesan level of
    enquiry into his life, virtues, miracles
    and writings)
    - Oct. 3, 187: he was Declared
    Venerable by Pope Pius IX
    - June 17, 1904: his body was
    exhumed and was covered with
    a slab of marble
    - Jan. 8, 1905: declared blessed
    by Pius X and gave him as
    patron to all the parish priests of
    France and the French colonies
    - May 31, 1925: declared a saint
    by Pius XI, together with St.
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    Second level
    ● Third level

    ● Fourth level

    ● Fifth level

    April 23,
    1929:
    declared by
    Pius XI
    “patron of all
    the priests in
    Ars was to become the supreme place
    of pilgrimage for priests and even
    bishops that they may gain new
    strength to practice the virtues and
    show the spirit of their calling.
    The End

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