As the cholera epidemic was lessening, so did the awareness of the misery it had caused.<\/p>\n
\nBut misery is being felt on all sides, and we do not dare to hope that the collections taken up so ostentatiously in the previous cholera epidemic will relieve it very much.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Eugene then spoke of the money that had been collected in the previous epidemic of 1835, and how those funds had been misused and never reached the intended victims.<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile, the poor are relying on the bishop\u2019s house, and soon we will be reduced to selling our silverware to help them, since we have not received a cent from all those philanthropic collections whose proceeds are disappearing into a fund where I think they put them. There is a universal complaint in the city, regarding the misappropriation; and yet, many a man who would not give a hundred sous to his pastor, glories in seeing his name pompously inscribed on a published list for a hundred francs and sometimes less.<\/strong> [ed: 5 sous made 1 franc]<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 7 September 1837, EO XVIII<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As the cholera epidemic was lessening, so did the awareness of the misery it had caused. But misery is being felt on all sides, and we do not dare to hope that the collections taken up so ostentatiously in the … Continue reading