ree years under the first empire and without any books. "I
knew the psalms by heart and, thanks to this converse with God, which
escaped the jailor, I was never troubled by boredom."]

[Footnote 5277: As with the "Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes," whose
society has the most members.]

[Footnote 5278: "Manreze du pretre," by the Rev. Father Caussette, I.,
9. The Manreze is the grotto where Saint Ignatius found the plan of
his Exercitia and the three ways by which a man succeeds in detaching
himself from the world, "the purgative, the illuminative and the
unitive." The author says that he has brought all to the second way,
as the most suitable for priests. He himself preached pastoral retreats
everywhere in France, his book being a collection of rules for retreats
of this kind.]

[Footnote 5279: Someone who, like me, have lived through the attempted
Communist conquest of the world, in Eastern Europe, in China, Korea,
Vietnam and other conquered territories, the terrible experiences of
those imprisoned in re-education camps, come to mind. Did Lenin have
Taine translated? Did Lenin and Stalin use this description of catholic
brainwashing as their model? We might never find out. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5280: One of these enduring effects is the intense faith of
the prelates, who in the 18th century believed so little. At the present
day, not made bishops until about fifty years of age, thirty of which
have been passed in exercises of this description, their piety has
taken the Roman, positive, practical turn which terminates in devotions
properly so called. M. Emery, the reformer of Saint-Sulpice, gave the
impulsion in this sense. ("Histoire de M. Emery," by Abbe Elie Meric, p.
115 etc.) M. Emery addressed the seminarians thus: "Do you think that,
if we pray to the Holy Virgin sixty times a day to aid us at the hour
of death, she will desert us at the last moment?"--" He led us into the
chapel, which he had decked with reliquaries.... He made the tour of it,
kissing in turn each reliquary with respect and love, and when he found
one of them out of reach for this homage, he said to us, 'Since we
cannot kiss that one, let us accord it our profoundest reverence!'...
And we all three kneeled before the reliquary."--Among other episcopal
lives, that of Cardinal Pie, bishop of Poitiers, presents the order of
devotion in high relief. ("Histoire du cardinal Pie," by M. Bannard,
II.,348 and passim.) There was a statuette of the Virgin on