{"id":6209,"date":"2025-11-27T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:37:28","slug":"an-excited-pilgrim-seeing-as-much-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6209","title":{"rendered":"AN EXCITED PILGRIM SEEING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene had written to Fr. Tempier that \u201cI must be with Mgr d\u2019Isoard before ten o\u2019clock, who is to take me with him to St. Peter\u2019s to assist at the great exposition of the Forty Hours.\u201d In his diary he wrote:<\/h3>\n

Sunday, November <\/em>27<\/em>: <\/em>Went to Saint Peter\u2019s. Attended the service in the chapel. All the Cardinals present, the Pope absent. The Blessed Sacrament carried in procession to the Pauline chapel for the adoration of the Forty Hours. The illumination of the chapel according to the design of…, with a huge number of candles. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

One senses the excitement of the pilgrim Eugene in Rome for the first time \u2013 quite an itinerary for one afternoon:<\/h3>\n

After dinner, visited the Church of the Trinita del Monti, met the Father Abbot of the Trappists<\/strong><\/em>[ed. whom Eugene had hosted in Aix some years before], Saint Mary Major, Saint John Lateran, returned by way of the Coliseum and the Capitol.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Roman Diary, EO XVII<\/em><\/h3>\n

On the day of his arrival, Eugene\u2019s first stop had been to greet Monsignor d\u2019Isoard. We will be reading a lot about him during Eugene\u2019s stay in Rome. Alexander d\u2019Isoard was born in Aix en Provence, and while Eugene was a seminarian in Paris, they had visited. While in Rome, Eugene visited him very often. Because he was involved in the ceremonies at the Vatican as the Pope\u2019s mitre-bearer, he often invited Eugene to walk behind him, thus enabling Eugene to participate fully in important ceremonies while in Rome.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene had written to Fr. Tempier that \u201cI must be with Mgr d\u2019Isoard before ten o\u2019clock, who is to take me with him to St. Peter\u2019s to assist at the great exposition of the Forty Hours.\u201d In his diary he … Continue reading →<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","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=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}