*St. John Vianney was a French parish priest who lived from 1786 to 1859. He struggled mightily with his studies and only was made a priest by the intervention of others. He was assigned to one parish and stayed there the rest of his life, hearing confessions, saying Mass, and preaching.
Lovely quote, found on catholicsaints.info:
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there; if you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.
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