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Milton 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.

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A fictionalized biography of the famous Cure based on unimpeachable sources and recounting in an appealing way the story of the humble priest who was thought too ignorant to become a priest. It traces the story from boyhood, and recounts his conversion of his village, his fame as a confessor, and his diabolical obsessions. He is such an appealing character and inspiring saint that it would be difficult to write of him in anything but an interesting and stimulating way. The author makes him come alive. (Kirkus Reviews)

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