Bastille Day

"The fact that France got back on her feet after the Revolution must be accredited to a priesthood that learned the interior life the hard way, by persecution. But through these men a current of divine life came to enliven a generation which seemed condemned to death by apostasy and an indifference which no human power seemed able to overcome."

Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard,
Soul of the Apostolate, Pt. 1.6

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