Man Who Fought the Devil

A boy too dim to learn. A zero on his seminary examination. By every measure, Jean Marie Vianney should have failed. Instead, he became the Cure of Ars, a humble parish priest whose reputation for wisdom and compassion spread across nineteenth-century France. Pilgrims traveled for days to sit in his confessional. They whispered that he was a saint, though he never sought the title. But something else noticed his growing influence. The devil, furious at the parade of souls being saved through this simple priest, launched a campaign of torment against him. Night after night, the evil one returned to the little village, determined to break the man who had beaten him. This is the story of how one ordinary, struggling human being faced down the forces of darkness and refused to yield. It is for anyone who has ever been told they are not enough.