The Sermons of the Cure D’Ars, St. John Marie Vianney - For the Sundays and Feasts of the YearSt. John Vianney, the Cure dArs, though he was not thought competent to preach or hear confessions, became one of the greatest preachers and confessors of his age. The 19th century was one of optimism for French Catholicism, but, following the horrors of the French Revolution, there was also a feeling of lukewarmness and an approach to the moral life that felt sin could not be all that bad. St. John Vianney, on the other hand, would not suffer to see