{"id":5877,"date":"2024-10-21T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:39:46","slug":"i-have-gone-to-confirm-many-of-these-poor-victims-on-their-death-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5877","title":{"rendered":"I HAVE GONE TO CONFIRM MANY OF THESE POOR VICTIMS ON THEIR DEATH-BED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>We are here under the fatal influence of cholera, which takes from us some 40, or 30, 20, or 25 people each day. Those who come here are in danger. Yesterday a whole family of five people died on coming back to the city after having gone away at the beginning of the epidemic. You must know that I did not consider this danger when my duty called me back to my flock, but up to now I have felt no symptoms of the illness. None of ours has been attacked.<\/strong> <\/em><\/h3>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>Letter to Fr. Ferdinand Grenier, in Nancy, 30 September 1849, EO X, n 1023<\/i><\/h3>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Bishop Eugene and the diocesan and Oblate clergy courageously ministered to those afflcited by the cholera epidemic.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>The cholera continues with the same intensity; but sudden horrible cases are rather rare. Since I\u2019m back, I have gone to confirm many of these poor victims on their death-bed, and I have felt no other pain than the anguish, which I cannot guard against in the sight of such disasters.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>Letter to Fr Ambroise Vincens at N. D. de L\u2019Osier, 12 October 1849, EO X n 1024<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The end of life deserves as much beauty, care and respect as the beginning.&#8221; (Author unknown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are here under the fatal influence of cholera, which takes from us some 40, or 30, 20, or 25 people each day. Those who come here are in danger. Yesterday a whole family of five people died on coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5877\">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-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","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=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}