{"id":4973,"date":"2021-12-03T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2021-11-30T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:20:10","slug":"i-joke-about-the-preference-accorded-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"I JOKE ABOUT THE PREFERENCE ACCORDED TO HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An entry from Eugene&#8217;s diary refers to the rivalry between the cities of Marseilles and Lyon as to which was the most important city. Lyon claimed to be the first French diocese, while Eugene differed and believed that Marseilles was.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Letter from Fr. De Bussy. He excuses himself from coming to give us the pastoral retreat this year. He offers himself for the following year. Letter to this Father to accept his offer even while complaining about having been forgotten this year. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Letter to Fr. Maillard to accept Fr. Guillermet, who will come to give the retreat in the place of Fr. De Bussy. I joke about the preference accorded to him in Lyon and, far from recognizing the proud motto of Prima Sedes Galliarum,<\/strong><\/em>[ed \u201cFirst (episcopal) seat of the Gauls &#8211; The Bishop of Lyon was the Primate of France\u201d]<br \/>\n<em><strong>I claim that all the rights of priority belong to me because, if our Phoenicians<\/strong><\/em> [ed. The Phoenicians, originating from modern-Greece, founded Marseille in the sixth century before Jesus Christ] <em><strong>had not been converted to the faith when Saint Pothin disembarked on our shores, it would have stopped here, but already the friend of Jesus, our great Saint Lazarus, sat in the midst of his people, etc.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 16 July 1844, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Eugene was always convinced that Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, had arrived in Marseilles with his sisters and was the first Bishop of Marseilles. According to the legend, the Mary referred to was Mary Magdalene (and not the sister of Martha and Lazarus of the Gospel) and hence the great devotion to her in southern France. She is believed to have lived and died not far from Aix en Provence and Marseilles.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entry from Eugene&#8217;s diary refers to the rivalry between the cities of Marseilles and Lyon as to which was the most important city. Lyon claimed to be the first French diocese, while Eugene differed and believed that Marseilles was. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4973\">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-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}