HENRI PERREYVE

AND

HIS COUNSELS TO THE SICK

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Second Edition.

FREDERIC OZANAM, Professor of the Sorbonne ; His Life and Works. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 7s. 6d.

The Times says:

"In England,' as the authoress of this book truly says, 'the name of Frederic Ozanam is not widely known,' but her volume will help to make one of the most remarkable Catholic laymen of our day familiar to Protestant readers."

The Saturday Review says:

"We thank Miss O'Meara for this graceful and interesting record of a noble life, which those who have once taken it up will not find it easy to put down."

The Spectator says:

"Miss O'Meara presents with perfect good taste the picture of a very eminent man, whose power was of the most fascinating kind."

LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATErnoster Square.

HENRI PERREYVE

AND

j

HIS COUNSELS TO THE SICK

BY

KATHLEEN O'MEARA

AUTHOR OF

"LIFE OF FREDERIC OZANAM," 66 THOMAS GRANT, FIRST BISHOP

OF SOUTHWARK," "BELLS OF THE SANCTUARY," ETC.

PRINT

LONDON

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1881

PREFACE.

I HAVE translated Henri Perreyve's "Journée des
Malades at the earnest request of one who owes

the book a debt of gratitude, which it seemed to
him he might in part repay by passing on to others
the consolation he had himself found in its com-
panionship during a long and painful illness.

The book needs no comment of mine. "All that is written here, was suffered before it was written," Henri Perreyve says in offering us this sursum corda of a Christian on the Cross. This is what constitutes its power, and explains the extraordinary grace and strength of consolation which so many find in its pages. It is a record of personal experience, and the outcome of a life which combined with singular perfection the three DEC 131914 322732

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