Tenth point. The manner in which he fulfilled both his priestly duties and those of provost

The same day, July 2*jtli, at three o'clock in the after noon, she replied on the tenth point :

I declare that it is a public fact, that our Blessed Father was made a Priest by the im position of hands of the late Monseigneur Bishop de Granier, his predecessor, a man greatly revered in that neighbourhood on account of his sanctity, and who, as I have been assured, declared at the time that this young Priest would some day be one of the great lights of the Church and his successor in the bishopric. Our Blessed Founder, then, having been made Priest and

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Provost of the Cathedral Church of Geneva, soon became eminent and a pattern and example of every virtue. We all know that he said Holy Mass, and was present every day at the Divine Offices, that he heard confessions, and often preached the word of God in an excellent way, and that he was looked upon, as various credible persons have assured me, not as an ordinary individual, but as a man of God. And this is true, &c.