{"id":2554,"date":"2014-05-19T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-05-14T06:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T04:12:59","slug":"who-is-saint-eugene-eugene-the-child-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS SAINT EUGENE? EUGENE THE CHILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"1044\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"324\"><em>(On the occasion of the Oblate novena \u2013 May 21 to\u00a0May 29 &#8211;\u00a0I am going to re-publish the entries that I had prepared\u00a0<\/em><em>two years ago on various aspects of the life of Eugene de Mazenod.\u00a0This daily reflection has\u00a0a much larger following now and I think it worthwhile to remind\u00a0our readers of the key elements of Eugene\u2019s life and their significance.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 August 1782 \u2013 birth in Aix en Provence. Son of Charles Antoine de Mazenod, President of the Court of Accounts, and of Marie Rose Joannis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I have not changed over the years. I idolize my family.<\/strong><strong>I would let myself be cut up into little pieces for some members of my family, and that stretches out to quite a long way for I would give my life without hesitation for my father, mother, grandmother, my sister and my father\u2019s two brothers.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Generally speaking I love with passion everybody I believe loves me, but theirs must be a passionate love too.<\/strong><strong>So gratitude is the final constituent that goes to make up my heart\u2019s passion.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Self-evaluation written for his spiritual director in 1808, O.W. XIV n. 30<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It is hard to understand, given the portrait of myself I have just painted, how sensitive a heart I have, overly so in fact. It would take too long to give you all the stories of my childhood traits I have had related to me and which are really rather surprising.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It was quite normal for me to give away my breakfast even when I was hungry to satisfy the hunger of the poor, I used to bring firewood to people who complained of the cold and of not being able to afford to buy it, on one occasion I went as far as to give away the clothes off my back to clothe a poor person, and many, many other stories in the same vein.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Self-evaluation written for his spiritual director in 1808, O.W. XIV n. 30<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(On the occasion of the Oblate novena \u2013 May 21 to\u00a0May 29 &#8211;\u00a0I am going to re-publish the entries that I had prepared\u00a0two years ago on various aspects of the life of Eugene de Mazenod.\u00a0This daily reflection has\u00a0a much larger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,9,17],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-eugenes-family","tag-eugenes-personality","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}