{"id":11,"date":"2010-06-28T19:05:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-06-03T23:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:58:41","slug":"who-is-eugene-de-mazenod","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Who is Eugene de Mazenod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">THE SHORT VERSION: KEY EVENTS OF HIS LIFE<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">1782\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 birth in Aix en Provence<br \/>\n1791\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 forced into exile in Italy by the French Revolution<br \/>\n1802\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return to France<br \/>\n1808\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, to study for the priesthood<br \/>\n1811\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ordained priest<br \/>\n1812\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 returned to Aix and did not go into a parish but<br \/>\ndedicated his ministry to those not being touched by the structures of the Church:<br \/>\nthe poor who spoke Proven\u00e7al, youth, prisoners, neglected inhabitants of\u00a0 small villages<br \/>\n1816\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 founded the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (initially Missionaries of Provence)<br \/>\n1823\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 appointed Vicar General of Marseilles<br \/>\n1832\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ordained Bishop of Icosia, but with residence in Marseilles<br \/>\n1837\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 appointed Bishop of Marseilles<br \/>\n1841\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sends first Oblate missionaries to Canada and Ireland and England<br \/>\n1861\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 death on 21 May<br \/>\n1975\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 beatified by Pope Paul VI as a missionary passionate for Jesus Christ and for the Church<br \/>\n1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 canonised by Pope John Paul II<br \/>\nTODAY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 his <strong>missionary spirit<\/strong> continues in some 4000 Missionary Oblates in 67 countries,<br \/>\nthousands of laity in the Mazenodian family throughout the world,<br \/>\nand the members of some 44 institutes of consecrated life connected to his charism.<br \/>\nMany find in St Eugene an <strong>intercessor for families in difficulties<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">THE LONGER VERSION:<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>Father <strong>Herv\u00e9 Aubin OMI\u00a0<\/strong>has very generously allowed me to reproduce his brief biography of Saint Eugene here.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0We offer it to you so that you may deepen your knowledge of this saint, whose writings we explore each day.<\/h3>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CLICK-HERE-TO-READ-THE-BOOK3.pdf\">CLICK HERE TO READ THE BOOK<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SHORT VERSION: KEY EVENTS OF HIS LIFE 1782\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 birth in Aix en Provence 1791\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 forced into exile in Italy by the French Revolution 1802\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return to France 1808\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris, to study for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?page_id=11\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}