{"id":486,"date":"2011-01-27T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-01-21T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:32:00","slug":"eugene-as-mission-preacher-the-strong-impression-that-he-made-on-his-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"EUGENE AS MISSION PREACHER: THE STRONG IMPRESSION THAT HE MADE ON HIS LISTENERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Leflon continues to describe the impression Eugene made as a preacher:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>\u00a0Everything about the young priest combined to make a strong impression. His stature, his grand manner, his flashing dark and deep-set eyes, the rich resonance of his voice, at times soft and tender, and at other times sounding forth like the trumpets of Judgment Day, utilizing all its registers with a restful variety and with striking contrasts. Finally, the Provencal tongue which he handled superlatively offered him all its resources of colorful imagery, sweeping periodic sentences and musical harmonies.<\/h5>\n<h5>This explains his sway over the most varied classes which he never failed to captivate and hold in his grip.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">J. Leflon, <em>Eugene de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles, Founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 1782 \u2013 1861,<\/em> Volume II, chapter 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Leflon continues to describe the impression Eugene made as a preacher: \u00a0Everything about the young priest combined to make a strong impression. His stature, his grand manner, his flashing dark and deep-set eyes, the rich resonance of his voice, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=486\">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":[9,32,56],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-eugenes-personality","tag-mission-preaching","tag-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}