According to Catherine Lassange, one of the primary witnesses to the life of the Cure of Ars, he gave this account of his first confession: "I still remember it! It was at home, right beneath our clock."
But John Mary had to wait until the summer of 1799 to make his First Holy Communion. It had been said that the bloody upheavals and persecutions did not really disturb the mind and soul of this child. But now came the time of the "Second Terror." The calm had not lasted very long. New persecutions began against Catholics...
One had to go into hiding to pray to God. So much so, in fact, that John Mary--then slightly over thirteen years old--received his First Holy Communion in secret, in the shuttered room of a house in Ecully. "I was there," said Margaret Vianney. "My brother was so happy, that he did not want to leave that room." Fifty years later, the Cure of Ars showed his First Communion rosary to the children in his catechism class.
(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)
Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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