“Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.”

—  Léon Bloy

Pope Francis quotes Bloy in his first homily as Pope. Pope Francis: 1st homily. Missa pro Ecclesiae in the Sistine Chapel http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-1st-homily-full-text

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French writer, poet and essayist 1846–1917

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