But how holy a fool he was his superiors soon discovered.

We find the following among the memoranda: "Pere L'hoir was my superior in the studentate.

He was a holy man and a good friend, but he was surprised at my state of prayer.

He asked me how it could happen that I, a convert of only a few years, should have a state of prayer he had not attained though in the Church all his life and striving for perfection.

I told him that it was God's will to set apart some men for a certain work and specially prepare them for it, and cause them, as He had me, to be brought under the influence of special Divine graces from boyhood.