{"id":3414,"date":"2017-06-15T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2017-06-15T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:12:32","slug":"eugene-and-the-history-of-france-the-return-of-our-legitimate-princes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"EUGENE AND THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: THE RETURN OF OUR LEGITIMATE PRINCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"960\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"324\">Napoleon was definitely defeated in June 1815. Leflon writes:<\/p>\n<p>Napoleon\u2019s downfall made it possible for the Church not only to re-establish her spiritual rights in papal, episcopal and capitular jurisdiction but also to open the way completely for her apostolic activity. To Father de Mazenod, it seemed a providential liberation which at one and the same time answered the needs of the religious situation and opened up to his zeal paths he had aspired to tread for a long time. Years later he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>The reign of Napoleon, who had his turn in persecuting the Church, nullified all the efforts of our young fellow-priests. If all their plans, like our own, had not been hampered by that iron rule, their zeal would have supplied for their lack of numbers. The Empire was overthrown, and it was only with our emergence from that crisis and with the return of our legitimate princes that we felt any hope of realizing for the good of the people of France some of the ideas we had constantly nurtured during the entire course of our seminary training and during the first three years of our priesthood.\u00a0<\/strong>(Eugene de Mazenod, &#8220;Memoires,&#8221; quoted in Rambert I p.161<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Leflon II, p 10-11<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoleon was definitely defeated in June 1815. Leflon writes: Napoleon\u2019s downfall made it possible for the Church not only to re-establish her spiritual rights in papal, episcopal and capitular jurisdiction but also to open the way completely for her apostolic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3414\">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":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","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=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}