Why St. John Vianney Is a Model for All Priests

Why St. John Vianney is a model for all priests

St. John Vianney. / Credit: Herwig Reidlinger via Wikimedia Commons CC 3.0 CNA Newsroom, Aug 4, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). A century after the patron saint of priests, St. John Vianney, died on Aug. 4, 1859, Pope John XXIII reflected on the life of the saint and what it means to be a holy priest.In contemplating his life, one immediately thinks of a priest who lived out great penance and whose “only motives were the love of God and the desire for th…

The holy Curé of Ars, model and example for priests – Exaudi

The priest Raphael de Mosteyrin offers readers of Exaudi this article on the holy Curé of Ars, patron of parish priests and whose feast is celebrated on August 4. *** The Cure of Ars (1786-1859) was presented by Saint John XXIII, 100 years after his death, as a model and example for priests. In 2009, Benedict XVI named a priestly year on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. These are references to the greatness of the life of this…

Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests - Catholic Insight

On this day, August 4th, in 1859 – the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx’s Communist Manifesto, both of which, sadly, shook the faith of many – the world witnessed the quiet passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest who lived and worked at the same parish of Ars in northeastern France for 41 years, never taking a holiday, nor much of a break at all. He slept litt…