This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary podcast.

I am in Arse, France, the home of St. John Viena.

We just celebrated Mass with the Cardinal of Lyon

in the Church in which the incorrect body of St. John Vianne rests and now we are in the

chapel where his heart is in repose.

So this rosary comes literally from the heart

of St. John Vieni.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those that we've promised to pray for.

Now, St. John Viena will not mind me saying this, but he was a blockhead.

But so am I.

St. John Viena was born into a peasant family in the small town near Lyon, France, called

Dardley in 1786. His family was poor in material possessions but rich in humanity and in faith.

He spent so many years of his childhood and as a teenager in the fields

tending the flocks that at the age of 17 he was still illiterate.

He desperately wanted to be a priest but soon after he entered

the seminary they asked him to leave mid-semester because he couldn't keep up with the academic

work.

But at that point, God intervened and an old pastor took him in and personally prepared him.

And finally he was ordained when he was when he was 29 years old.

But before long, thousands of people came from all over France

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