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The idea of bringing out an English life of Father
Arsenius was first suggested to me by my Dominican brother, Raymund. I willingly undertook the
work, not only on account of the pleasure and encouragement that it gave to me personally as a
member of the Order of which Father Arsenius was
so bright an ornament, but also because I had come
to realize how many people were deprived of the
example of this holy religious, simply on account of
the absence of any English biography.
My manuscript was submitted to an old confrère
of Father Arsenius, and the following extract from
his report may be of interest : “ I have experienced
real pleasure in reading over again the life of
Father Arsenius, with whom I lived many years
both in France and in England. He was truly such
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FOREWORD
as the author of his life describes him to the reader
—a religious exemplary alike for his piety, his
unremitting activity, and his mortification; very
austere, very hard with himself, and yet with all this,
very affable and very charitable towards others. . . .
Those in particular who had the privilege of knowing him will read his ...
A Modern Franciscan : Being the Life of Father Arsenius, O.E.M
