Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859, afterwards to become famous as the Curé of Ars. He was a man that overcame his meager education and was ordained a priest. Besides being a tireless confessor he was frequently engaged in the important work of directing souls to the knowledge and attainment of their vocation and in giving other counsel valuable in their spiritual life. The special features of this most supernatural life appear to be, evangelical poverty of spirit, and the two fruits which spring from it, the sweetness and the radiant peace which beamed from his countenance, his words, his tones, and every action of his life. In a word, the one great truth taught us by the whole story of the Curé of Ars is the all-sufficiency of supernatural sanctity. A soul inhabited by the Holy Spirit becomes His instrument and His organ in the salvation of men. To such a sanctity the smallness of natural gifts is no hindrance, and the greatest intellectual power without it does little in the order of grace, for souls are to be won to God as God created and redeemed them by love and by compassion; and it was this which shone forth with a surpassing splendor in all the life of this great servant of Jesus, and concealed even the wonderful gifts of discernment and supernatural power with which he was endowed. The book "The life of John Vianney, his thoughts and excerpts from his sermons" talks in depth this saint's extraordinary life, thoughts and some of his sermons, through which he hoped to bring men closer to God and Salvation.