sentences:  In the two former books Gerbet views the dogmas of the Eucharist and Penance as admirably fitted to develop the affections — "nourrir le coeur de sentiments" — just as he uses the "réalités visibles" of Rome as symbols of her "essence spirituelle".Sainte-Beuve (Causeries de lundi, VI, 316) says that certain passages of Gerbet's writings "are among the most beautiful and suave pages that ever honoured religious literature".Gerbet's "Mandements et instructions pastorales" were published at Paris in 1876.