{"id":5905,"date":"2024-11-19T00:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:34:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:34:02","slug":"i-went-to-liverpool-where-another-kind-of-marvel-was-waiting-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"I WENT TO LIVERPOOL WHERE ANOTHER KIND OF MARVEL WAS WAITING FOR ME"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Founder wanted the Oblates in Britain to establish themselves in an independent mission in an urban setting. At first it seemed this setting would be in Manchester\u00a0 but the success of the Oblate mission there in 1849 induced the Apostolic Vicar of the Lancashire District Bishop George Brown to think of offering the mission of Holy Cross chapel in Liverpool to the Oblates. \u2026. On 18 January 1850 the mission was officially placed in the care of the Oblates.<\/h3>\n

This part of the city was a vast dockland slum, housing many thousands of Irish immigrants who had fled Ireland after the devastating potato famines of 1845 and 1847. Many had used Liverpool as a staging area to go to other lands, but thousands stayed in the area in the most squalid conditions. It was made up of dingy tenements, joined together in airless courts and polluted by open sewers and piles of rubbish. By the end of 1847 over 300,000 impoverished and fever-ridden immigrants from the Irish famine had settled in the Liverpool area. These immigrants formed the vast majority of the parishioners of the parish. It was estimated that the parish contained about 11,000 Catholics, though this number kept increasing with the arrival of every ship from Ireland. (https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/liverpool-holy-cross-parish-1850-2001\/<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

A year later Eugene visited Liverpool:<\/h3>\n

After having accomplished my mission at Manchester, which was to bless the first stone of the church to be raised by our Fathers in the district which has been assigned to them, a ceremony which was performed with as much solemnity as at Marseilles, I went to Liverpool where another kind of marvel was waiting for me. Our Fathers, as you know, are in charge of the district of Holy Cross inhabited by a great number of poor Irish to whom they provide the aid of religion. It would be too long to describe to you all that is done in this miserable shed which serves as a chapel and which fills up six times on Sundays.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Letter to Fr Henri Tempier, 10 July 1850, EO III n 42<\/em><\/h3>\n

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