Written by George W. Rutler

Published by Catholic Truth Society, 2009, booklet, 48 pages.

2 covers same year of printing one for the Year for Priests and the 150 anniversary of the saint’s death, marked CTS Biographies.

It is often and wrongly stated that Vianney was the first parish priest to be canonized. However, his particular charism was to be so completely identified with his parish and to do so many routine things so well for so long. Here is the amazing account of how this simple man, with our great expectations beyond saving souls, transformed an insignificant backwater parish in traumatized, post-Revolution France, against all the odds. Written by an acknowledged Vianney expert.