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Cyran alone was and could be the head of Jansenism; he alone could have inspired that idea of immolation of the whole being to the sovereign will of God, as to the truth which resides in Him alone. Once assured of this point, M. de St. Cyran became immovable. Mother Angelica pressed him to appear before the archbishop's council, which was to pronounce upon his book Theologie familiere.
A task of such a character, carried out in such a spirit, might have seemed a harmless one. But the Jesuits had long marked both St Cyran and Jansen as theological foes, opposed to their special doctrines.
Lebrun was preferred to him as first painter to the king by Louis XIV. himself; Philip of Champagne was delighted thereat; he lived, in retirement, in fidelity to his friends of Port-Royal, whose austere and vigorous lineaments he loved to trace, beginning with M. de St. Cyran, and ending with his own daughter, Sister Suzanne, who was restored to health by the prayers of Mother Agnes Arnauld.
"Because " the slave-girl hesitated; then timidly and with trembling lips she whispered, "because, dear mistress, I I love you." She seemed to bend beneath her burden and, knelt beside her mistress and wept. "Go please go," said Appius, turning to Cyran. "You irritate me, and I cannot understand you." But Arria divined the secret of the poor slave-girl, and pitied her. Cyran rose and left them.
The prince's threat and the words of Caesar had checked his feet with caution. He forbade Cyran to tell any one of the presence of Arria. "And where is my friend?" Vergilius demanded. "He waits on the ship to hear from you whether it be safe to come. It seems Antipater has threatened him." "Tell Cyran I would have her come to me.
The spirit of M. de St. Cyran is there, and also the spirit of the gospel, which caused Pascal, when he was dying, to say, "I love poverty, because Jesus Christ loved it. I love wealth, because it gives the means of assisting the needy."
That beautiful and fertile town, as it then seems to have been, shaded with sycamores and olives, luxurious with grapes and figs, abounding in wells of the purest water, enriched with the splendid church that Helena had built, and consecrated by so many associations, from David to the destruction of Jerusalem, was no dull retreat, and presented far more attractions than did the vale of Port Royal, where Saint Cyran and Arnauld discoursed with the Mère Angelique on the greatness and misery of man; or the sunny slopes of Cluny, where Peter the Venerable sheltered and consoled the persecuted Abélard.
Cyran, was really in the right, justifying himself in the elusive language which was more characteristic of the Jansenists than the frank declaration he had just made. Vincent, however, was too honest and straightforward, too loyal a son of the Church, to be deceived.
"The iron foot is upon us," said he. "Do not let it tread you down as it has other women. Be my vestal and guard the holy fire of love." Then he told of Cyran, the slave-girl, and added: "I leave her in your care. Every day she will cause you to think of me." It was near the middle hour of the night.
Cyran. He had wished to immolate sinful man to God, and he regarded sanctity as the complete sacrifice of human nature corrupt to its innermost core. Human conscience could not accept this cruel yoke; its liberty revolted against so narrow a prison; and the Protestant reformation, with a doctrine as austere as that of M. de St.
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