Foreign News: Chéron of Lisieux

Not many men alive today have walked and talked with an authentic saint. Such a man is rare old Henri Chéron, sturdy, twinkling-eyed Finance Minister of France.

Long years ago he strummed a reverent guitar while hymns were sweetly sung by "The Little Flower" of Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized...

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