{"id":69,"date":"2010-06-16T22:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-09-12T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:47:09","slug":"a-wooden-cross-and-a-crown-of-thorns-are-above-this-coat-of-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"A WOODEN CROSS AND A CROWN OF THORNS ARE ABOVE THIS COAT OF ARMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In his 1839 Diary, Eugene continues to reflect on his vocation. As a son of Aix\u2019s \u201chigh society\u201d he could have aspired to a high position in the diocese, because his father had been President de Mazenod of the Court of Accounts. As a seminarian, Eugene had taken his father\u2019s coat of arms (his mortier \u2013 which was a velvet head covering that denoted the judges of the Courts of Accounts, placed on his presidential robe), reversed it and placed a Cross and a crown of thorns above these symbols of power. Already here we see the place of the symbol of the Cross in the life of the future founder.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was this same sentiment that determined my choice when, on returning to Aix the Bishop of Metz, who was the administrator of the diocese at the time, asked me what I wanted to do. There was not a hair on my head that wished to take advantage of my social position to give in to the pretensions that the whole world would have found reasonable at the time. I preferred to be put aside in the house of my God [Ps 84 (83),11] was my motto.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is drawn on a small drawing that I had had made while I was at the seminary to perfectly express the secret of my heart. My coat of arms placed on the cloak of the president \u00e0 mortier of my father, detached and negligently thrown on a stone bench, with the cap and the crown reversed; a wooden cross and a crown of thorns are above this coat of arms in the place of the ornaments that I witness to have renounced by throwing them in this way at my feet. There you have the true expression of the secret of my vocation.<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diary of 31 March 1839, O.W. XX<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1839 Diary, Eugene continues to reflect on his vocation. As a son of Aix\u2019s \u201chigh society\u201d he could have aspired to a high position in the diocese, because his father had been President de Mazenod of the Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=69\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}