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"Better to live ten years less while working for God than ten years more doing nothing!" The priest who spoke those words died at the age of fifty-three in a suburb near Lyons. This apostle to the poor worked himself to death. "A priest," he would say, "is a man consumed!" Antoine Chevrier left many documents that were assembled after his death by the first priests and sisters of the Prado. Father Yves Musset, a priest of the Prado, presents some of those documents, the most characteristic of Father Chevrier's writing, on those themes that were dear to him. Reading the texts and what they reveal, readers will discover the spirituality of the founder of the Prado, who was both a fervent disciple of Jesus-Christ and a tireless apostle to the poor.