Brothers, He Who Dies Here

The Realities Of Life Do Not Allow Themselves To Be Forgotten.

The Holy Law Of Jesus Christ Governs Our Civilisation, But It Does Not Yet Permeate It.

To Love Another Person Is To See The Face Of God.

In 1815, M. Charles Francois-bienvenu Myriel Was Bishop Of D-----. He Was A Man Of Seventy-five, And Had Occupied The Bishopric Of D----- Since 1806. Although It In No Manner Concerns, Even In The Remotest Degree, What We Have To Relate, It May Not Be Useless, Were It Only For The Sake Of Exactness In All Things, To Notice Here The Reports And Gossip Which Had Arisen On His Account From The Time Of His Arrival In The Diocese.

Need Is A Low Door Which, When We Must By Stern Necessity Pass Through, Forces The Greatest To Bend Down The Most.