{"id":5698,"date":"2024-02-16T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2024-02-15T02:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:11:50","slug":"god-has-just-saved-us-from-a-great-misfortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5698","title":{"rendered":"GOD HAS JUST SAVED US FROM A GREAT MISFORTUNE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alerted that the angry citizens, furious with the result of the elections, which they attribute to the influence of the bishop and of the clergy, are to come tonight to smash the windows of the episcopal residence and to insult me. I will not leave my residence for this and I am ready and waiting.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 27 April 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

The next day he wrote:<\/h3>\n

God has just saved us from a great misfortune. It was something quite different from breaking windows that the scoundrels under the orders of certain agitators had in mind.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The plot, which has now been uncovered, was to set fire to the port and the bishop’s palace, and while help was on the way, the conspirators intended first to plunder the Pawnbrokers’ Shop and then the whole town. Theft and murder would have accompanied this horrible disorder. The conspirators had gathered in a house located in the crossroads parallel to the Avenue des Capucines. It was there that the National Guard, who had already arrested some of those on their way to the appointment, seized a large number who were armed to the teeth and equipped with incendiary torches. The newspapers are full of details of this atrocious conspiracy<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 28 April 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.” (Robert Kennedy)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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