What saints were able to accurately determine what vocation God is calling someone to?
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St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, had the gift of reading souls when it came to helping someone discover his or her vocation.
- Abbé Trochu, The Curé of Ars, ch. 26 "Les intuitions et les prédictions du Curé d’Ars" ("The intuitions and predictions of the Curé of Ars"), "Intuitions et prédictions diverses: sur des vocations au mariage ou à la vie religieuse" ("Various intuitions and predictions: regarding the vocations to marriage or to the religious life"), pp. 521-527,
discusses the saint's predictions of several people's vocations:
- The Curé of Ars knew that in marriage Mlle. Berlioux (younger sister of General of the Marist Sisters of Belley) "would find only thorns" and that she "will be received by the Sisters of St. Clare" where she "will persevere, […] die […], and […] go to Heaven." (ibid. p. 522).
- Mlle. Bossan was "to be married soon", but the Curé "burst into tears", telling her "how unhappy you will be!" and to "Enter at the Visitation", where he predicted she'd be < 50 years before dying; she died after 49 years there. (ibid. p. 522).
- Mlle. Hedwige Moizin desired the religious life, against her family's wishes, but the Curé predicted she would die within a year. (ibid. p. 522).
- Mlle. Bernard of Fareins thought she was called to be nun, but the Curé "unhesitatingly declared" she was not and predicted she'd die on Assumption day. (ibid. p. 523).
- M. Auguste Faure wanted to be a Jesuit, but the Curé said “stay where you are. Life is so short!” He died within a year. (ibid. p. 523).
- The Curé told Mlle. Louise Lebon "you will enter your convent" (ibid. pp. 523-4).
- The postulant Mlle. Ernestine Durand "was compelled to return home" by her family; she "lost both appetite and sleep", and the Curé predicted "the child was [to be] restored to the convent by her own mother" (ibid. p. 525).
- Josephte, daughter of Mile. Hedwige Moizin, seemed "just made for a convent"; her eldest daughter Anthelmette was thought "rather worldly". The Curé correctly predicted the complete opposite would come to pass: Josephte married, and Anthelmette became a nun! (ibid. pp. 525-6).
- The Curé left his confessional to tell the widow Baronne de Lacomble, who traveled to Ars, to let her two sons marry and that "they will be very happy!" (ibid. pp. 526-7).
King St. Louis IX did, too, as related in the biography of his confessor William of Chartres, O.P.: "‘Master William will toy with his position as treasurer for only five, maybe six years; but then he will enter into religion.’", which came to pass.
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