Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honor and sainthood are Bernanos' two absolutes. By reference to them he illuminates the history of France and of. all Western, Christian society...
...weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman. He becomes, for a few pages, one of the best things a man without genius or sainthood may hope to become: a great artist, communicating nobly with the other Hyacinthe de Lafites of his time...
...business is to show and make credible the violent agonies of an inchoate young peasant priest on the way to sainthood. At their first climax young Father Donnisan contends with Satan face to face and conquers him; at their second, the same night, he meets the young girl, so shatters her that she retreats pell-mell to Satan, cuts her throat. The priest is locked up as a madman. Later he is given an obscure parish...