"Divine Providence," says M. Leon Aubineau, "has so ordered it, that during the course of thirty years, the men of the seventeenth century, so enamoured of all manner of vanities, should come in crowds to do homage to humility and simplicity. While the philosophers of our day have been inveighing against confession and its consequences, the people have replied by flocking to Ars to venerate a confessor."
(Alfred Monnin, Life of the Curé d'Ars - St JBM Vianney)
