{"id":5147,"date":"2022-09-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2022-09-28T01:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:29:42","slug":"for-me-it-was-more-holy-than-the-catacombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5147","title":{"rendered":"FOR ME IT WAS MORE HOLY THAN THE CATACOMBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do we consider some of our deceased loved ones as being saints? Are they present to us in the communion of saints?<\/span><\/p>\n

The bodies of some of the first Oblates to have died, as well as of some of Eugene\u2019s family members, had been buried in the grounds of the “Enclos”, Madame de Mazenod’s property in Aix en Provence. A burial chapel was now constructed in the Aix cemetery and Eugene participated in the exhumation of the remains, which had lain in the earth for some 25 years.<\/h3>\n

Journey to Aix. I had the bodies exhumed which are still found at l\u2019Enclos. They are those of Fr. Suzanne, of Fr. Arnoux, of Bro. Morandini and of Nathalie de Boisgelin. For me this was a very painful journey, but I acquitted myself of this duty with the meditation inspired in me by the sight of the precious remains of all these predestined saints whose relics I was collecting, penetrated by a religious respect, but also with a type of heartbreak difficult to express. … I will not describe it. It\u2019s too horrible to report. As long as not the least fragment of the holy bones which I came to collect have been able to escape our search.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene knew each of them well and was convinced that each one had lived a holy life and was a saint.<\/h3>\n

\"\"… for me it was more holy than the catacombs, so much did I know the virtues of the blessed souls who had enlivened these bodies reduced to such a deformity. They have been placed, the three missionaries in a three-compartmented box of walnut wood, and my niece in another separate small box. In several days, they will be transported to a tomb which I have had prepared in the grand cemetery, with the other holy bodies of my father, of my grandmother, of Caroline and of Fr. Marcou.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Will we not be able to truthfully inscribe on the tomb containing these holy remains: corpora sanctorum [ed. the bodies of saints]?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 21 April 1845, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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