{"id":5716,"date":"2024-03-08T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2024-03-03T22:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:13:42","slug":"this-father-is-ever-more-admirable-for-action-and-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5716","title":{"rendered":"THIS FATHER IS EVER MORE ADMIRABLE FOR ACTION AND COURAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the context of the disorder and fear caused by the 1848 Revolution Eugene wrote in his diary:<\/h3>\n

Letter from Fr. Court\u00e8s. This Father is ever more admirable for action and courage. He returned to Limoges at the time of the rioting in order to reassure the newly arrived Fathers who arrived in the nick of time to help in all these disorders. Fr. Nicolas could not have asked better than to retrace his steps.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod’s Diary, 4 May 1848, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n

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

Yvon Beaudoin provides the background to this Oblate foundation in Limoges:<\/h3>\n

“The year 1847 marked an important stage in the Congregation\u2019s expansion in France. It took root in two dioceses far distant from Provence: Nancy in the northeast and Limoges in the centre. The second of these foundations \u201cwas as if directed by Providence Itself,\u201d wrote Father Ortolan, \u201cbecause no one had thought of them.\u201d On October 3, Bishop de Mazenod received a letter from Bishop Bernard Buissas, Bishop of Limoges from 1844 to 1856, who suggested he establish a house of mission preachers in his episcopal city. Without success, he had already approached several religious congregations. Since he had heard \u201cmany good things about the Oblates,\u201d he hastened to ask for a few priests. The very same day, the Founder wrote to Father Court\u00e8s to come as soon as possible to Marseilles because he needed him to \u201canswer a letter of great interest. \u201cAlready October 7, he sent an answer to Bishop Buissas telling him that \u201cthere does, indeed, exist in the Church a small congregation whose main end is to evangelize the poor and to come to the aid of the most abandoned souls.\u201d He told him that he was sending him some priests at the end of the annual retreat at the beginning of November. On October 19, he designated the personnel of the future community: Father Hippolyte Court\u00e8s, superior, Fathers Jean Viala and Scipion Chauliac and Brother Jean Bernard Ferrand. On November 17, accompanied by Father Tempier, they took possession of a huge house, recently constructed, surrounded by a garden that was adjacent to the park of the bishop\u2019s house.<\/h3>\n

…Father Court\u00e8s was only sent to Limoges for the foundation and until Father Melchior Burfin would be free after the parish mission season.” (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/limoges-1847-1904\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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