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Jerome, Father

The cure of St. Laud’s, and one of the soldiers in the Vendean revolt.

"...a tall, well-made, brawny man; his face was not exactly handsome, but it was bold and intellectual; his eye was bright and clear, and his forehead high and open-he was a man of immense muscular power and capable of great physical exertion, he was above forty-five years of age but still apparently in the prime of his strength" -  La Vendee