10:10 PM Sun Jun 5 SF o@ & 90% &% want to study advanced techniques in the great trade center of Barcelona. The discovery of his rare
talents won him renown and position in the business community of that city, all of which success totally eclipsed his priestly vocation. Worse still, his mind incessantly awhirl with the challenges of the trade, he found their compelling interests becoming strong distractions even from an ordinary spiritual life. “True,” the saint lamented retrospectively, “I received the sacraments frequently during the year. I attended Mass on all feasts and holy days of obligation, daily prayed the Rosary to Mary, and kept up my other devotions, but with none of my former fervor. I can’t overstate it my obsession approached delirium.”