28 How the Church Has Changed the World night, stopping to say Mass and the daily office, sometimes with hardly a break for food or sleep. He raised Catholic France from the dead. Saint John Vianney is the patron of parish priests. He might well be the patron of all the faithful who dwell in a land of madness. I imagine him present at the base of the mountain of the Transfiguration, and a child called France is bound by a spirit that ties the tongue and stops up the ear, that keeps her from hearing the truth and speaking it. “Why could I not cast out the spirit?” he asks. We might ask the Lord the same question now. “This kind,” says Jesus, “only comes out by prayer and fasting.” ••
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