July 4

“Not only was he a model in the community, but he was again like a precious cement which bound the brothers in the house into one mind and one heart. God alone knows all the good and the charity that this gentle and wholesome influence produced. All impatience ceased, all impetuosity gave way before his ever imperturbable serenity, before his ever beaming good humour…”

Father Delpeuch about Brother Claude-François Martel OMI who died in France on this day in 1864.