sentences:  Two translations of this work in Latin and one in Italian have been completed; and as recently as 1862 a "Biblical Patristic Concordance for Preachers and Catechists" was compiled from it.In the introductions to both works, Houdry sets forth his views on the functions of a preacher and criticizes the style of preaching in vogue in his time.In 1702 the famous preacher published a small ascetic treatise in two volumes, on the exercises of St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, addressed to priests and accordingly written in Latin.