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St. John Vianney once gave a medal to a Protestant who visited him. The man exclaimed: " Dear sir, you’ve given a medal to one who’s a heretic, or at least I'm a heretic from your point of view. But although we are not of the same religion, I hope we shall both one day be in Heaven.' The holy priest took the gentleman's hand in his own and giving him a look which seemed to reach his very soul, answered: "Alas! my friend, we can't be together in Heaven, unless we've begun to live so in this world. Death makes no change in that. As the tree falls, so shall it lie. Jesus Christ has said, 'He that does not hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.' And He said again, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd,' and He made St. Peter the chief shepherd of His flock. My dear friend, there are not two ways of serving Jesus Christ; there's only one good way, and that's to serve Him as He Himself wishes to be served.” Saying this, the priest left him. But these words sank deeply into the good man's heart, and led him to renounce the errors of Luther and he became a fervent Catholic.



