Feast Day:August 9th

Born:May 8,1786

Death:August 4th,1859

Most teenagers deal with a lot of stress and peer pressure.You know if your friends are acting weird or maybe your grades aren`t good enough.Don`t you wish you could tell someone about all your problems. Well just imagine telling them to St.John Mary Vianney-The Confessor.

St.John Mary Vianney was born on May 8,1786 to th loving parents of Matthew and Mary Vianney. As a child John understood the meaning of prayer. He wasn`t a good student,but the thought of becoming a priest kept his hopes up. He was finally ordained on August 9,1815 and he went to Ars, a very wicked town,and through intense prayer and fasting brought about conversion of the whole place. He listened to people`s problems in confession and could actually read their souls!He loved teenagers and tried to protect them from evil. He listened to 20,000 people a year from all over France who came to him with their problems. He died on August 4, 1859 and was made a saint by Pope Pius XI on May 31,1925. His feast day is August 9 and he is the patron saint of all parish priest.

"God chooses your reasons,way,and time of death when you appear out of your mother`s womb.All men will undergo particular judgement on the day they pass the world on."