Excerpt from Life of Blessed John Gabriel Perboyre, Priest of the Congregation of the Mission: Martyred in China, September 11th, 1840 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in a hamlet amid the fertile vineclad hills of France, a child was born, for whom the virgins and martyrs were weaving a crown and preparing a high place within their ranks. Forty years later, people visited with devotion the place where he first saw the light of day; many, thousands of miles away, recommended themselves to him; while others prostrated themselves at his tomb to implore his mediation with God, because from all sides came tidings of the miracles granted through his intercession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.