Thus the relations between the Cure d’Ars and the Society of Mary seem to have followed a very simple path; one might almost be tempted to call it natural, were the decisions and judgments of St Jean-Marie Vianney not so permeated with the supernatural. One of the noblest titles of the early Marists is certainly that of having drawn to themselves the love and esteem of a priest who lived so close to God, while the memory of the solicitude of the Cure d’Ars for our Society should be an incentive for us today to show again in our lives those characteristics which had won over his heart to our religious family.”
[1] Notes from an article of the same name written by Fr Jean Coste in ‘ACTA’ n.27-T.V, Decemeber 1959, alternating French-English pages, pp.369 – 417.
– David Kennerley SM