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A strange man, the ‘Curé d'Ars'. They say he was not an outstanding scholar, yet he subjugated Father Lacordaire and other brilliant minds who came to visit him. Hunted by the gendarmes as a deserter, he nevertheless received the Légion d'honneur. His fellow priests thought him unremarkable, yet he was venerated by a host of people who recognized the value of his perspicacity. A fascinating man, the ‘Curé d'Ars'. One cannot read his catechisms without being struck by his simplicity and candour, as well as a poetical and mystical genius of rarely equalled depth: most of Saint John and Saint Paul is retold to the humble and those in search of meaning. A marvellous man, the ‘Curé d'Ars'. Here we meet not only a priest capable of enduring the most arduous ordeals, but also a friend to whom one tells the most intimate things, a consolation, a close listener - one who gives life to those secret notes of music that inhabit all of us - because the man they called the ‘Curé d'Ars' was invested and possessed by love: that of God for humanity.