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<\/a>You think that the 54 francs I spent, in having my portrait engraved, were well spent; but I am very sorry to have to tell you that it was money wasted. I am furious with this M. Chretien who, after making a drawing which was perfectly life-like, made an engraving from it which was not. I was expecting that he would flatter me, but he had the talent to make me completely ugly.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u00a0From my nose to my mouth, he has established a monstrous distance, he has obligingly provided me with a long- pointed chin and thought it good to place this chin on top of a second one. All these features give the lower part of my face an exaggerated length and leave it horribly out of proportion. Now you will know (because I’m annoyed) that the distance that is between my nose and my mouth is very strongly regular, that my chin is not double and it is in no way pointed. When I received these prints in Paris, I was tempted to throw them into the fire. As people claim to recognize me in this portrait in spite of all its defects, I am sending you one of the engravings<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nLetter to his father, 26 December 1805, Mejanes Library, Aix<\/em><\/p>\nAgain, an example to show his outlook and values before he was transformed . Five years later he would look at himself and life from a totally different perspective, through the eyes of Christ the Savior:<\/p>\n
\nThanks be to God, I don\u2019t think I can be accused of luxury or being over-particular about myself, and I hope no one will ever be able to find fault with me on that account,\u00a0<\/strong>(cf. https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=54<\/a> )<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\nand later showed this in his Rule of\u00a0 Life for the Oblates: (https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1451 <\/a>)\u00a0![\"200\"](\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/200.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cAn example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Pope Francis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eugene de Mazenod, at 23 years of age, angrily writes to his father about this portrait. \u00a0You think that the 54 francs I spent, in having my portrait engraved, were well spent; but I am very sorry to have to … Continue reading
Letter to his father, 26 December 1805, Mejanes Library, Aix<\/em><\/p>\n Again, an example to show his outlook and values before he was transformed . Five years later he would look at himself and life from a totally different perspective, through the eyes of Christ the Savior:<\/p>\n and later showed this in his Rule of\u00a0 Life for the Oblates: (https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=1451 <\/a>)\u00a0 \u201cAn example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Pope Francis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eugene de Mazenod, at 23 years of age, angrily writes to his father about this portrait. \u00a0You think that the 54 francs I spent, in having my portrait engraved, were well spent; but I am very sorry to have to … Continue reading \n
Thanks be to God, I don\u2019t think I can be accused of luxury or being over-particular about myself, and I hope no one will ever be able to find fault with me on that account,\u00a0<\/strong>(cf. https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=54<\/a> )<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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