{"id":661,"date":"2011-04-30T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-04-28T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:56:42","slug":"the-first-vocations-to-oblate-religious-life-and-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST VOCATIONS TO OBLATE RELIGIOUS LIFE AND PRIESTHOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I do not have a written text of Eugene, but write about some of the first persons to join him after the initial founding group. Their lives and ministry continued his spirit and actions.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Register of Entries into the Novitiate <\/em>(kept in the General Archives, Rome) shows who the first four novices of the Missionaries were. They had all been members of the Youth Congregation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hippolyte Court\u00e8s<\/strong>, who after his ordination always remained close to Eugene as a confidant and friend. He was the superior of the Aix community for most of his life and ensured a fidelity to the spirit of Eugene in the community life and its important missionary outreach<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hilarion Bourrellier <\/strong>was ordained but remained with the Missionaries for only three years. He joined the Diocesan Clergy;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jean Baptiste de Bausset <\/strong>remained with the Missionaries for two years, but continued to live here as a student<\/li>\n<li><strong>Casimir Carles<\/strong>, who did not persevere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the other Youth Congregation members, another ten entered the novitiate of the Missionaries, three of whom persevered as Oblates. [Jacques <strong>Marcou<\/strong>, Jean Baptiste <strong>Honorat<\/strong> and L\u00e9on <strong>Saboulin<\/strong>], and a fourth who left the Missionaries to become a diocesan priest and continued to remain in contact with Eugene [<strong>Coulin<\/strong>].<\/p>\n<p>Between 1816 and 1823, it was Eugene and Tempier who formed the novices according to their spirit. The members of this batch of novices became a good missionaries and marked the Congregation in some way. Among them I single out four who were destined to become important communicators of Eugene\u2019s spirit and zeal themselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jean Baptiste Honorat<\/strong>, who led the first group to Canada, and opened the way to an outstanding missionary history in North America;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eug\u00e8ne Guigues<\/strong>, the first Bishop of Bytown who ensured fidelity to Eugene\u2019s spirit in the development of the Church in Ottawa, and set the pattern for what an \u201cOblate diocese\u201d looked like in  missionary countries;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacques Jeancard<\/strong>, who left the Oblates after 12 years of oblation but remained \u201can Oblate at heart\u201d and a close collaborator of Eugene as a diocesan priest. In 1858 he became Eugene\u2019s Auxiliary Bishop in Marseille.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hippolyte Guibert <\/strong>was a close confidant and adviser of Eugene and became the first Oblate Cardinal of Paris and builder of the Sanctuary of Sacr\u00e9 Coeur of Montmartre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I do not have a written text of Eugene, but write about some of the first persons to join him after the initial founding group. Their lives and ministry continued his spirit and actions. 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