The Cure D'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney book

The Cure D'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney book...
Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney (May 8, 1786 - August 4, 1859) was born on the eve of the French Revolution and grew up in an age of failing faith and social upheaval. Already a late vocation with little formal schooling or academic aptitude he was ordained in 1815 and appointed parish priest of the village of Arc near Lyon.  He was by no means dull, and his lack of intellectual prowess was more than compensated for by his steadfast faith, unwavering pursuit of holiness and heroic commitment to the duties and demands of his priestly office.  Only seventy years after his death he was named the “Patron Saint of Parish Priests”.  In this definitive biography of St Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, Abbé Trochu has compiled the many extraordinary facts surrounding the life and vocation of the Curé of Ars.  Shying away from popular legend and basing his book largely on the records and documents used by the Church in the official Process of Beatification and Canonization, Trochu presents an inspiring Journey into the life of the Cure that is at once marvelous and authentic.  As no one else, the author gives readers a vivid and accurate picture of this loving and generous saint, remarkable for his burning desire to make God’s goodness known to a world that had hardened itself against Him—a God who he said was “quicker to forgive than a mother to snatch her child from the fire.”

“From my seminary years I had been impressed by the figure of the Curd of Ars, especially after reading his biography by Monsignor Trochu. Saint John Marie Vianney astonishes us because in lull, we can see the power of grace working through human limitations.”

—Pope John Paul II, Gift and Mystery

 This is a must read for the year of priests.  624 pgs, Paperback. Item # B366

Table of Contents

PART ONE - THE YEARS OF PREPARATION

1. First Years
2. A Young Shepherd Under the Terror
3. School, First Confession, and Communion
4. Labourer and Vinedresser
5. A Late Vocation
6. The Defaulter of Les Noes
7. The Year of Philosophy at Verrieres
8. At the Grand Seminaire of Lyons
9. Subdiaconate, Diaconate, Priesthood
10. Vicaire at Ecully

PART TWO - PASTORATE OF ARS

1. Arrival at Ars and First Contact with His Parish
2. The Conversion of Ars: 1. Prayer and Penance
3. The Conversion of Ars: 2. War Against Religious Ignorance
4. The Conversion of Ars: 3. Fight against the Profanation of Sunday,
      Against Taverns and Blasphemies
5. The Conversion of Ars: 4. Campaign Against Dancing
6. Restoration of the Old Church of Ars
7. Great Trials of the First Years: Calumnies and Temptations
8. The Triumph of Goodness - Apostolic Labours
9. The "Providence" of Ars
10. Ars Transformed
11. The Cure D'Ars and the Devil
12. The Pilgrimage to Ars: 1. The Beginning - St. Philomena
13. The Pilgrimage to Ars: 2. The Contradictions of the Clergy
14. The Pilgrimage to Ars: 3. The Cure D'Ars as a Confessor
15. The Pilgrimage to Ars: 4. The Cure D'Ars as a Spiritual Director
16. The Pilgrimage to Ars: 5. A Typical Day of the Cure D'Ars - His Interior Life
17. The Cure D'Ars Yearning for Solitude - Grave Illness and the Flight of 1843
18. Incidents of the Last Years:1. Suppression of the Orphanage - Foundation
     of the Day School and of the Boarding School of the Brothers - Decennial Missions
19. Incidents of the Last Years: 2. LaSalette
20. Incidents of the Last Years: 3. The Cure D'Ars a Canon of Belley and Chevalier of the
      Legion D'Honneur - The Feast of December 8, 1854
21. Incidents of the Last Years: 4. Towards La Trappe of La Neyliere
22. Physical and Moral Portrait
23. At the Height of Sanctity: 1. Testimonies
24. At the Height of Sanctity: 2. Heroic Virtues: Humility - Love of Poverty and of the Poor
25. At the Height of Sanctity: 3. Heroic Virtues: Patience and Mortification
26. Institutions and Predictions of the Cure D'Ars
27. The Miracles of the Cure D'Ars
28. The Great Mystical Experiences of the Cure D'Ars
29. The Last Years of the Saint's Life
30. Last Illness and Death
31. In Glory