{"id":6238,"date":"2026-01-07T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:41:16","slug":"we-ask-your-holiness-that-you-give-them-the-name-of-oblates-of-the-most-holy-and-immaculate-virgin-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"WE ASK YOUR HOLINESS, THAT YOU GIVE THEM THE NAME OF OBLATES OF THE MOST HOLY AND IMMACULATE VIRGIN MARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once the missionaries had started to work outside of Provence, it became necessary to change their name. They had adopted \u201cOblates of St Charles,\u201d no doubt to honor the Founder\u2019s patron saint. Eugene, however, did not like this name. Of his own accord he decided to change it to Oblates of the most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary and needed the Pope\u2019s permission for this change.<\/h3>\n

Such touching signs of the great protection on the part of Your Holiness is already a kind of approval; besides, the Society of Missionaries is pleased to regard them as an inalienable title, of which it hopes, with God\u2019s grace, never to be unworthy. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/em>At the same time, we ask Your Holiness that, in the Brief of Approval which the Missionaries request, you give them the name of Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary instead of Oblates of S[ain]t Charles: this to avoid any confusion of names with other Congregations; and further, if you are agreeable and if you approve, to make it clear that the Abb\u00e9 de Mazenod, who was thereto named by unanimous vote of his co-workers, be and remain the superior of the Society of the Missionary (from now on called, if it pleases Your Holiness) Oblates of the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mary.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The most humble, faithful and devoted son of Your Holiness,<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The Abb\u00e9 de Mazenod, Vicar General of Marseilles.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Petition to His Holiness Pope Leo XII, 8 December 1825, EO XIII n. 48<\/em><\/h3>\n

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