The missionaries were fragile persons and not all was rose-coloured in their life.<\/p>\n
\nThose who have been accepted into the Society may be sent away only for serious reasons on the request of the superior plus a two-thirds majority voted assent of the other Missionaries.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Request to the Capitular Vicars of Aix, 25 January 1816, O.W. XIII n.2<\/em><\/p>\n
The expulsion of the 25 year-old Auguste Icard put this prescription into practice just a few weeks after it had been written. Already before the Society came together, Eugene had written to Forbin Janson (19 December 1815): \u201cIcard is too impetuous and is annoyed at the slowness of the others<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d In the Register of Admissions to the Novitiate<\/em>, Eugene made a note next to Icard\u2019s entry that “reasons of major importance<\/em><\/strong>” obliged him “shortly after to notify Icard he was no longer to consider himself a member of our Society<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0Over twenty years later Eugene recalled \u00a0in his M\u00e9moires <\/em>the one \u201cwhose name we no longer mention amongst us\u201d \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in this way:<\/p>\n
\nCan one believe that the very one who indicated the first <\/strong>(ed. companions) whom I chose, and who proposed himself to join me with them, was a miserable priest whom I had to chase after the first mission. He never rid himself of his infamous habits, and lived as a bad priest for the rest of the few years he spent on this earth, and died without any religious assistance, impenitent, by a death that they say was self-inflicted\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Rambert, La vie de Monseigneur Charles-Joseph-Eug\u00e8ne de Mazenod,
\nTome I, p. 164<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0In 1823, Emmanuel Maunier and S\u00e9bastien Deblieu also left the Missionaries of Provence to be diocesan priests elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Three of Eugene\u2019s original five first companions did not persevere! Indeed the missionary is a fragile vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The missionaries were fragile persons and not all was rose-coloured in their life. Those who have been accepted into the Society may be sent away only for serious reasons on the request of the superior plus a two-thirds majority voted … Continue reading