Excerpt from The Revival of Priestly Life: In the Seventeenth Century in France, a Sketch Some names, known and loved wherever true hearts beat with love of Christ and His Church, will readily occur to every one's mind in thinking of that period, but amid the bright particular stars which shine forth so gloriously in the Church of the latter part of the sixteenth and earlier part of the seventeenth cen turies, the name of Charles de Condren is probably unknown to many who are familiar with those house hold objects of love and veneration, S. Francis de Sales, S. Vincent de Paul, or even with the scarcely less revered names of Cardinal du Perron, Cardinal de Berulle, and M. Olier. This is as he himself, the pcre de Condren, would have wished; for the one most striking Characteristic of his singularly holy life was its intense humility - the real desire to efface himself - to penetrate his whole existence with the Spirit of S. Paul's words, Not I, but Christ in me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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