The union of souls?
Yes; for uses worthy of souls.

The union of bodies?
No; that would only clip his wings and narrow his horizon.

Thenceforward the test of true kinship with him could only be a kindred aspiration after union in liberty from merely natural trammels, in order to tend more surely to a supernatural end.
This may seem to some a strange beginning to a life so simply and entirely set apart from the active, or, at least, public union of the sexes in apostolic labors.

Strange or not, the reader will see it to be more true as this biography proceeds, and its writer is not conscious of any reluctance to make it known.

Such an integral supernatural mission to men was what he ever after desired and sought to establish, though he only attained success on the male side.