{"id":3704,"date":"2018-05-28T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:00:28","slug":"the-pope-agrees-with-the-plan-to-make-eugene-de-mazenod-a-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3704","title":{"rendered":"THE POPE AGREES WITH THE PLAN TO MAKE EUGENE DE MAZENOD A BISHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we have seen, Bishop Fortun\u00e9\u2019s tactic to save the pastoral life of the Marseille diocese – when the government\u2019s threat to suppress the diocese would go into effect \u2013 was to have his nephew Eugene made a bishop so as to assure that confirmations and ordinations would continue.\u00a0(Refer to the entry above https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3701<\/a>and also to the \u201cOblate Historical Dictionary<\/em>\u201d https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/icosia-bishop-of\/<\/a>\u00a0for the background.)<\/p>\n

Bishop Fortun\u00e9 had sent Fr Tempier to Rome to arrange this with the Pope. The Pope agreed to the plan and summoned Eugene to Rome where he would be ordained as a bishop.<\/p>\n

Eugene named Father Court\u00e8s to be Vicar General of the Oblates during his absence, and left for Rome, arriving in mid-August. In this letter he informs him of the latest developments (referring to himself in the third person so as to avoid the government censors)<\/p>\n

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My very dear friend, you ought to have received details of my news from Marseilles. I asked for that in all my letters. I delayed writing until I was ensconced in this capital and brought up to date concerning “certain matters”\u00a0<\/em>which touch the people you know.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Even before seeing the Holy Father. I was informed of his intentions: they correspond to what I told you. It is what he thinks, what he wants, he confirmed it personally in the audience he gave me yesterday that lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Holy Father spoke first and disclosed his intentions to me about the person in whom you take such interest, in the kindest way. He told me plainly that he was busy finding the best means to achieve the end proposed. He added some flattering words to what he had to say in which one can lawfully take some pleasure as coming from the mouth of the Head of the Church and when the recipient has the spirit of faith and sees Jesus Christ in his Vicar. You see that I did not have to open my mouth, although I understood that patience is going to be called for in the matter as in everything that goes on here.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, 29 August 1832, EO VIII n 428<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we have seen, Bishop Fortun\u00e9\u2019s tactic to save the pastoral life of the Marseille diocese – when the government\u2019s threat to suppress the diocese would go into effect \u2013 was to have his nephew Eugene made a bishop so … Continue reading →<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}