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The Abbé Marignan well deserved to be named after that famous battle. He was a tall, thin, fanatical priest, always in a state of exaltation, but never unjust. All his beliefs were fixed, and they never wavered. He sincerely believed that he understood God, that he penetrated His designs, His wishes, His intentions.
As he walked up and down the garden path of his little country presbytery a question sometimes arose in his mind: "Why did God do that? " Then, imagining himself in God's place, he searched obstinately, and he nearly always found the reason. He was not the man to murmur in transports of pious humility, "O Lord, thy designs are inscrutable! " What he said was: "I am the servant of God; I ought to know the reason for what he does, or to divine it if I do not."