{"id":4198,"date":"2020-03-05T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2020-02-02T10:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:20:56","slug":"religion-had-to-take-the-initiative-to-relieve-the-poor-sick-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"RELIGION HAD TO TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO RELIEVE THE POOR SICK PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Since cholera was daily more ravaging, I thought that religion had to take the initiative as regards some relief that it would be fitting to procure for the poor sick people. So, I called a meeting at the Bishop\u2019s house of the heads of our religious institutions\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They decided to establish five field hospitals throughout the city run by the women and men religious. The political interests of the Mayor interfered and he did not allow the idea to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>The diocesan priests and the Oblates continued to serve the sick day and night.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>The dedication of the diocesan priests has not failed this third time, any more than in the other two. Our Fathers at the Calvaire are continually being called to the bedside of cholera victims. They lend themselves day and night to this ministry of charity as their duty calls, but they do so wholeheartedly and with as much zeal as they and their brother religious at Aix have shown in other invasions of this plague. We have prescribed public prayers to conclude with the general procession of Saint Lazarus that will take place at the church of the saint.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 30 August 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since cholera was daily more ravaging, I thought that religion had to take the initiative as regards some relief that it would be fitting to procure for the poor sick people. So, I called a meeting at the Bishop\u2019s house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4198\">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-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}