So you ve decided to give in to the Devil said the priest John started back in dismay Oh no Father But you just told me you were giving up your studies for the priesthood responded Father Bailey What was poor John Vianney to do Having begun his schooling much older than the other boys he had found it impossible to keep up with them and a couple of days ago he had been sent home from the seminary It looked as if it were all over for his cherished hope of becoming a priest But Fr Bailey was not going to give up He was sure that John had a vocation and now a plan had just occurred to him Listen John he began This book tells what took place next It also tells about the time John Vianney hid in a hayloft to escape the police about the terrible sins he discovered when he became the cure or parish priest in the town of Ars as well as his strategy for loosening the Devil s grip on souls there It also describes what the Devil did back to Fr Vianney as well a