{"id":4066,"date":"2019-09-25T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2019-09-20T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:54:44","slug":"you-know-me-well-enough-to-understand-how-i-felt-with-this-dagger-plunged-deep-into-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4066","title":{"rendered":"YOU KNOW ME WELL ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND HOW I FELT WITH THIS DAGGER PLUNGED DEEP INTO MY SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communication was slow in Eugene\u2019s time and he had heard a rumor that his closest companion, Henri Tempier, had been dangerously ill. This letter shows how badly Eugene had taken the news and the sensitivity of his heart. A few years earlier he had suffered the illness and loss of two of his close collaborators, and he had remained scarred by the experience. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=3261<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>There\u2019s no need for me to tell you all I\u2019ve suffered these last several days. Everyone was saying you were dangerously ill. You know me well enough to understand how I felt with this dagger plunged deep into my soul. From the 25th September until October 6th this martyrdom was mine to taste. Towards the end, I was no longer in the land of the living.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Your letter puts me at rest. Let us say no more about it; what an amount of suffering you would have saved me by one single line from your pen! But I forgive you everything. There is nothing but love in my heart. I thank God for not submitting me to any worse test than this, heart-breaking and excessive though it was.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Henri Tempier, 9 October 1835, EO VIII n 548<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can certainly identify with his experience &#8211; let us be grateful for the relationships we are privileged to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication was slow in Eugene\u2019s time and he had heard a rumor that his closest companion, Henri Tempier, had been dangerously ill. This letter shows how badly Eugene had taken the news and the sensitivity of his heart. A few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4066\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}