{"id":4016,"date":"2019-07-31T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2019-06-14T02:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:24:43","slug":"it-is-impossible-to-narrate-the-heroism-of-the-devotedness-of-the-novices-and-scholastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO NARRATE THE HEROISM OF THE DEVOTEDNESS OF THE NOVICES AND SCHOLASTICS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The entire clergy of Marseilles, including our missionaries, acquitted themselves marvellously. At Aix, it is a scandal. They left it all to be done by our Fathers, who did wonders, but in addition people gave them due credit, pending divine reward. What is truly miraculous is that no one was taken ill despite experiencing excessive fatigue like that.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Although Eugene only wanted the priests to be involved with those dying of cholera, he recognized the courage of the novices and scholastics in their involvement.<\/p>\n

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And as for our Oblates <\/strong>[ed novices and scholastics] <\/em>it is impossible to narrate the heroism of their devotedness, for here it was a matter of touching, rubbing down, drying off an ever-growing number of cholera patients, men in a shocking state, giving off an unbearable stench, whose cold sweat sometimes drenched them, that is a literal description. Their sweat was so abundant that while changing them one wiped it off with the hand like after getting out of a bath. Our men had the experience while tending the dying of that icy sweat running down along their hands and arms down their sleeves to wet them through to their chests. It makes me shiver to narrate all these details.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
It was high time for me to bring them out of such a dangerous spot, they were on the point of going under. They were already experiencing in varying degrees certain warning signs that would not have been long in developing into something more. As it was only a matter of giving the temporary relief that these rubbings down give and which have no curative value. I ought not to have exposed the lives of those who are entrusted to me and who are furthermore the only hope for the Congregation\u2019s survival, to whose conservation I must attend as I am its father; this service could have been given by paid help.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Bruno Guigues, 1 August 1835, EO VIII n 529<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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