Excerpt from Spiritual Reading for Every Day, Vol. 1 of 2: An Introduction to the Interior and Perfect Life
Le Masson was born at Noyon, March I0, 1628, and when nineteen years of age he became a Carthusian. He was a Religious of great piety and learning, and was chosen successively Vicar, Prior, Visitor of the Province of Picardy, and lastly General of the Order, at the age of forty-seven. On him fell the additional duty of rebuilding the Grande Chartreuse, almostentirely destroyed by an accidental fire. He died happily, May 8, 1703, aged seventy-five.
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