{"id":4963,"date":"2021-11-29T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:57:24","slug":"all-the-children-of-the-city-numbering-1700-were-gathered-together-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE CITY NUMBERING 1,700 WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Eugene de Mazenod was Superior General of a growing Missionary Congregation while at the same time Bishop of the second largest city of France. Here is a glimpse into just one of his activities:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em><strong>General Confirmation at the cathedral. I wanted to attempt doing this. All the children of the city numbering 1,700 were gathered together there. It was close to two hours when I finished. I had dismissed the boys after I had confirmed them. I was not able to conceal that I was very fatigued towards the end of the ceremony. The timbre of my voice was failing, which obliged me to strain my lungs to articulate the sacred words. Two hours after having returned to my residence, I no longer felt any fatigue&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 31 May 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene de Mazenod was Superior General of a growing Missionary Congregation while at the same time Bishop of the second largest city of France. Here is a glimpse into just one of his activities: General Confirmation at the cathedral. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4963\">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-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","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=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}