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Updated: June 15, 2025
We wish to be united in the living Christ, all among us who thirst who thirst, Abbé Marinier! who thirst! thirst! that our faith, if it lose in extent, may gain in intensity gain a hundredfold for God's glory! And may it irradiate from us, and may it, I say, be as a purifying fire, purifying first Catholic thought and then Catholic action!
Marinier spoke, with slightly knitted brows, after a close scrutiny of his bean soup. "I fear," said he, "we shall weary Signora Selva if we talk now of the subject to be discussed at the meeting." Maria reassured him. She should not be present at the meeting, but she took the liveliest interest in its objects. "Very well, then," Marinier continued.
Marinier replied, assuming a contrite expression, "if you intend to forego logic !" Don Paolo, all on fire, wished to protest, but Professor Dane signed to him to be calm.
The Abbé Marinier may rest assured that that negative accord of which he spoke will amply suffice. We must strive to widen it, that it may embrace the majority of the intelligent faithful; that it may even reach the Hierarchy. He will see that positive accord will ripen in it, mysteriously, as the seed of life ripens in the decaying body of the fruit. Yes, yes, the negative accord is sufficient.
"You speak of saints?" said Marinier, drawing near. "A few minutes ago I inquired whether you had a saint among you, and I expressed the hope that you might possess one. These were simply oratorical figures, for I know well enough that you have no saint. Had you one, he would immediately be cautioned by the police, or sent to China by the Church."
"Well," di Leynì replied, "what if he were cautioned?" "Cautioned to-day, he would be imprisoned to-morrow." "And what of that?" the young man repeated. "How about St. Paul, Abbé Marinier?" "Ah! my friend! St. Paul, St. Paul " By this unfinished sentence the Abbé Marinier probably meant to convey that St. Paul was St. Paul. Di Leynì, on the other hand, reflected that Marinier was Marinier.
I wish furthermore to say, if the Abbé Marinier will permit me, that we have very few human fears." A murmur of hearty assent answered him, and Minucci started up, every nerve vibrating.
Surely my dear friend Marinier, one of the most acute-minded men I know, when he answered my dear friend Selva, did not intend to imply that when a person very dear to us falls ill, it is necessary for us to decide what method of treatment to adopt before hastening to his bedside together."
First came his young friend Leynì, who, on greeting Giovanni, begged to be excused for preceding the two ecclesiastics who were his companions. "I am master of ceremonies," he explained, and proceeded to introduce them there on the stairs. "The Abbé Marinier of Geneva. Don Paolo Faré of Varese, with whose name you are already acquainted."
According to their leader, who was the very eminent personage Donna Rosetta now proposed calling upon, other measures should be adopted to liberate the Holy Father from the pestiferous influence of a rationalist varnished over with mysticism. These things Donna Rosetta had learned from the Abbé Marinier, who smiled knowingly about them in her salon.
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