at Mont Blanc
At the age of almost 70 (!) years we see Fr. Dehon in the Mont Blanc mountain region, not far from Chamonix:
"In the evening of 9 August - Chamonix. The grandeur of nature tells us about God as does Christian art or the memory of the Saints. The Bossons! Mont Blanc! La Mer de glace. We had sufficiently clear weather. The Bossons descend from Mont Blanc like cascades of ice. Without any doubt they are the largest glaciers in Europe. With the funicular railway I was able to visit the Mer de Glace. In 1864 I went there together with my brother by mule. That was almost 50 years ago." (NQT XXXIV/1912,120s.)
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