The Curé d'Ars, St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney (1786-1859): According to the Acts of the Process of Canonization and Numerous Hitherto Unpublished Documents

Antonio Royo-Marín, O.P., cites this work regarding the Curé of Ars's keen ability to discern spirits, pp. 824-7 of [*Teología de la Perfección Cristiana* (4ᵃ ed.)](https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=4068) * * * [What saints were able to accurately determine what vocation God is calling someone to?](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/96077/1787) pp. 521-527 discusses the Curé's predictions of several people's vocations: 1. The Curé of Ars knew that in marriage Mlle. Berlioux (younger sister of General of the Marist Sisters of Belley) "would find only thorns" and that she "will be received by the Sisters of St. Clare" where she "will persevere, […] die […], and […] go to Heaven." ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 522). 2. Mlle. Bossan was "to be married soon", but the Curé "burst into tears", telling her "how unhappy you will be!" and to "Enter at the Visitation", where he predicted she'd be < 50 years before dying; she died after 49 years there. ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 522). 3. Mlle. Hedwige Moizin desired the religious life, against her family's wishes, but the Curé predicted she would die within in a year. ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 522). 4. Mlle. Bernard of Fareins thought she was called to be nun, but the Curé "unhesitatingly declared" she was not and predicted she'd die on Assumption day. ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 523). 5. M. Auguste Faure wanted to be a Jesuit, but the Curé said “stay where you are. Life is so short!” He died within a year. ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 523). 6. The Curé told Mlle. Louise Lebon "you will enter your convent" ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) pp. 523-4). 7. The postulant Mlle. Ernestine Durand "was compelled to return home" by her family; she "lost both appetite and sleep", and the Curé predicted "the child was [to be] restored to the convent by her own mother" ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) p. 525). 8. Josephte, daughter of Mile. Hedwige Moizin, seemed "just made for a convent"; her eldest daughter Anthelmette was thought "rather worldly". The Curé correctly predicted the complete opposite would come to pass: Josephte married, and Anthelmette became a nun! ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) pp. 525-6). 9. The Curé left his confessional to tell the widow Baronne de Lacomble, who traveled to Ars, to let her two sons marry and that " *they will be very happy!* " ([ *ibid.*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9629) pp. 526-7). * * * xxi, 630 pages : 22 cm "The definitive life, based on the official "Process of Beatification and Canonization," and thus totally factual and documented. Of humble education and assigned to a forgotten farmers' village, he attracted the whole world to Ars and was proclaimed "Patron Saint of Parish Priests" in 1929. He ate one meal a day, slept only a few hours a night, heard confessions up to 17 hours a day, converted thousands. His body remains incorrupt. A grace-filled story of total love of God!"--Publisher's website Includes bibliographical references and index London : Burn, Oats & Washbourne, 1927 Rockford, Ill. : TAN Books and Publishers, 1977 Charlotte, N.C. : TAN Books, 2007 Translation of [*Le curé d'Ars*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7001)