{"id":747,"date":"2011-05-14T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-05-14T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T07:51:53","slug":"150-years-later-who-is-saint-eugene-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"150 YEARS LATER, WHO IS SAINT EUGENE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

EUGENE, PRIEST OF THE MOST ABANDONED<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\u00a9 Laurent Girard \/ Studio Mazenod (2011) \u2013 Tableau du Jean-Jacques Martin<\/h6>\n

1812<\/strong> : returned to Aix as a young priest and lived in the house of his mother in the centre of the city<\/h3>\n
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My major occupation will be to love Him, my greatest concern will be to make Him loved<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Retreat notes, December 1812, O.W. XV n. 109<\/em><\/p>\n

1813:<\/strong> Beginning of his ministry among the most-abandoned. They were those who were not being touched by the structures of the Church of Aix: the youth, the prisoners, the people of Provence who did not speak French<\/h3>\n
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\u2026 my whole ambition was to consecrate myself to the service of the poor and of the youth. I thus started out in the prisons, and my first apprenticeship consisted of gathering around me young boys whom I instructed. I formed a large number in virtue. I saw up to 280 grouped around me, and those who today still remain faithful to the principles that I had the happiness of instilling in their souls and who do honour to their faith in every rank of society or in the sanctuary, will uphold for a long time, either in Aix or in the other places where they are dispersed, the reputation that this congregation had rightly acquired for itself while I was able to care for it.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Diary of 31 March 1839, O.W. XX<\/em><\/p>\n

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