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Preface.

the most ardent love to the august Sacrament of the Altar.

Supported by many truly christian persons, he established an association at Evreux, for the perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament. It was to inspire the members of that Confraternity with a clear and practical devotion to the adorable Eucharist, that he wrote this little work, to which we give for its first title : " The Book of Perpetual Adoration"

When it was published, this book met with wonderful success, though it was written with great simplicity, and the style was very little studied, on account of the numerous occupations of its author, added to the little importance he attached to worldly eloquence. The work was translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Polish, -and even into Latin; fifty thousand copies were sold in a very little time, and such great blessings at- tended it that, eighty thousand persons in the town of Augsburg (in Germany) and the neighbourhood gave in their names to take an hour for the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament.

If there be one thing that is astonishing after such a success, it is that this work and others from the pen of the holy author, should have been almost entirely forgotten; or, rather, we think we perceive in this forgetfulness a sad proof of the