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rabbitcruiser · 7 months

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Jacques Cartier discovered the area where Montreal is now located on October 2, 1535.

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Interior of the Grand Chapel of the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Issy-les-Moulineaux, southwestern suburbs of Paris

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oldbookist · 1 year

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As we come up on the big idea of Progress, it’s difficult to stress just how much the Church in 19th century France was a bastion of conservatism. Hugo is attacking convents here, I think, because they’re an easy target—if you read what he’s actually saying, it’s pretty clear that it’s also an attack on the Church and organized religion as a whole.

I’m reminded of my research on 19th century seminaries, which were stubbornly (and proudly) resistant to change, so things remained mostly unchanged for centuries—in Saint-Sulpice, the règlement and educational texts dated from the 1600s. Similarly to the convents, the walls of the seminary were meant to shut out the outside world. One student even recalled seeing the “terrible days” of the revolution of 1848 from the safety of his window. Former students fondly remembered the security of being shielded from the changing century and modernization.

Still, convents seem relatively innocuous for Hugo to attack them so harshly.

However…the revival of Catholicism in France after the Revolution appeared to be a resounding success. The restored Bourbon monarchy funneled its resources to helping the Church recover and recruit. Female religious orders in particular flourished, and devout Catholicism tended to be heavily associated with women, so it’s entirely possible that’s an aspect of his criticism. In any case, monasticism, which was so strongly condemned by the Revolution, lived to see another day.

(Ralph Gibson marks 1860 as the zenith of Catholic revival, which may be relevant considering the publication date of this book.)

And the Church was a decidedly counterrevolutionary force and its institutions remained a bulwark of conservatism throughout the century. (Not to mention the chief opponent to public secular education, a cause Hugo championed.)

So I think his point is that these things are not immune to criticism by virtue of their respectability or tradition. Obstacles to progress, in all forms—for that is what the convent is—must be actively combatted. The convent is the antithesis of progress.

Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; […] and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms.

Otherwise, they certainly won’t “consent to be dead.”

#les mis #les mis letters

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thepastisalreadywritten · 24 days

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SAINT OF THE DAY (April 7)

St. John Baptist de la Salle is known for promoting and reforming Christian education, especially amongst the poor.

He is the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools, which now teaches around the world.

He was also called the Father of Modern Pedagogy.

The French priest was one of the first pedagogues to emphasize classroom teaching in the vernacular instead of the usual Latin.

He also founded three teachers' colleges and, in 1705, he established a reform school for boys at Dijon.

John was born on 30 April 1651 in Rheims, France. He was the eldest child of Louis de La Salle and Nicolle Moet de Brouillet.

Nicolle's family was a noble one and operated a successful winery business. She was a relative of Claude Moët, founder of Moët & Chandon.

When John had completed his classical, literary and philosophical courses, he was sent to Paris to enter the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice on 18 October 1670.

He was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26 on 9 April 1678. Two years later, he received a doctorate in theology.

He died on 7 April 1751 at St. Yon, Rouen.

Pope Leo XIII beatified him on 19 February 1888 and canonized on 24 May 1900.

Because of his life and inspirational writings, Pope Pius XII proclaimed John as the Patron Saint of All Teachers of Youth on 15 May 1950.

He inspired others how to teach and care for young people, how to meet failure and frailty with compassion, and how to affirm, strengthen and heal.

#Saint of the Day #St. John Baptist de la Salle

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Saint of the Day – 27 April – Blessed Nicolas Roland (1642-1678) Priest, Canon, Mystic, Apostle of the prayer, the poor, especially children, teacher and Founder of the Congregation of the “Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus” – born on 8 December 1642 in Rheims, Marne, France and died on 27 April 1678 in Rheims, Marne, France of natural causes, aged 35. He was a friend, contemporary and Spiritual Director of Saint John Baptist de La Salle (1651-1719). (Biography here: https://anastpaul.com/2018/04/07/saint-of-the-day-7-april-st-john-baptiste-de-la-salle-1651-1719-the-father-of-modern-education/).

Nicolas Roland was born on the small town of Baslieux-les-Reims in the ancient province of Champagne, 9 kilometers away from Reims, son of Jean-Baptist Roland (1611–1673), Commissioner of the Government and antique merchant. He was Baptised on 23 July 1643. His Godfather was his uncle, Fr Matthieu Beuvelet.

In 1650 he joined the Jesuit College at Reims, where he showed an active intelligence and the wish to become a Priest. In 1653 he obtained the tonsure from Bishop Pouy at the Abbey of Saint Pierre les Dames. Completing his preliminary studies, he travelled around France for while.

The young student then moved to Paris in 1660 to continue his studies in Philosophy and Theology, staying at the college of Bons Amis. He joined several pious associations such as the “Friends Association” of the Jesuit Jean Bagot and one of Vincent de Paul. He considered joining the Jesuits and was also interested in the work of the Missionaries for a time and considered going to Siam after finishing his doctorate on theology. But he was appointed to a well-endowed Canonry at Reims Cathedral, before being ordained a Deacon and was highly regarded as a Preacher but realised that his elegant style reached few of the faithful. On 3 March 1665 he was Ordained a Priest.

In 1666 he left his parents house, moving to a house on Barbâtre Street, in Reims, where he began a life of poverty dedicated to charity. He established contacts with the Saint Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Seminary where his uncle worked and there he was exposed to the ideas of Adrian Bourdoise, Fr Jean-Jacques Olier (the Founder of the Sulpicians) and the movement for the renewal of the French clergy. Of all his apostolic activities, education of the poor, was the apostolate to which he was most attracted.

In Rouen he met yet another clergyman passionate about education of the poor, the Minim Blessed Father Nicolas Barre, who arrived in the city in 1659. Barre had organised a group of men and women who worked in free schools located in several neighbourhoods of the city. Roland returned to Reims with the intention of starting similar projects there. On 15 October 1670 a Reims’ orphanage founded by Marie Varlet was entrusted to him and he gradually transformed it into a real school. He asked Fr Barre to send two teachers from the Sisters of Providence to help. On 27 December 1670, the teachers, Francoise Duval and Anne Le Coeur, arrived. Fr Nicolas would later found with them, the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, dedicated to the education of poor and abandoned girls.

In 1672 he met a young Canon, John Baptist de la Salle and became his Spiritual Advisor. They stayed in touch while La Salle studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Roland influenced La Salle to learn a type of spiritual detachment that he later demonstrated when he founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

Official Portrait of Nicolas Roland, 1888

After the death of his father in 1673, Roland became more involved in encouraging the growing community of the “Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus.” On 13 July 1673 he opened the first school of the sisters, at his own expense. The Order received Diocesan approval and confirmation in 1675.

He wrote many spiritual works and published the “Notices for the regular people”. One of the notices left for the sisters reads:

“The sacred fire must embrace the sisters, it makes them inflame the others and above all the teachers, the students and all the people they come in contact with. That way with their example and edifying words, they will do good as the divine providence wishes. With this fire they will love their neighbour. God does not wish to divide the charity with which we love Him, we must give this one equally to all humanity. This is the principle on which we must encourage the teaching of girls in the schools, not making any distinction of their human and natural qualities.”

The following year he gave all his inheritance to consolidate the young congregation and increased his activities in favour of the poor and all those in any need, gathering a group of Priests around him who assisted in all these endeavours.

On 30 March 1678 he assisted, with great joy, in the first Holy Mass of Saint John Baptist de La Salle. He encouraged De La Salle to trade his Canonry for a small parish but the Archbishop opposed this move and so the matter remained unsettled for the time being.

On 19 April 1678, he had to stay in bed due to a severe headache. On the 23rd of the same month he prepared his Last Will and Testament, leaving the administration and care of his Order and their works in the hands of Saint John Baptist de La Salle. On the 27th he died peacefully at Reims and was buried in the Sisters’ Chapel on the 29th. Below is his Shrine, relics and the Chapel. He was only 35 years old and yet he left behind a huge apostolic project, an infirmary, a hostel and four schools.

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Saint John Baptist de La Salle then continued with the final approval of his work and later on followed in his footsteps, founding the Congregation of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools for the Christian education of the poor.

He was Beatified on 16 October 1994 by St Pope John Paul II, who, at the Beatification of Blessed Nicolas said:

“This young Priest, Canon and Theologian of Reims’ Cathedral, friend and counsellor of Saint John Baptist de La Salle and Founder of the Sisters of the Child Jesus… This young man from a middle-class family, well educated, able to see various sides of a question, could have become rich and powerful and a man of distinction. But he was called to follow another course, another route to which he became passionately devoted. He lived in the world of his day, with its poverty and wretchedness, uncertainty and fear, where the rich dominated and the poor never had a say, he found the road shown him by God, a road shown him by and in prayer. And he invited everyone, the young, adults, children, priests to follow the same road and he trained them how to do so. He discovered that “God has so loved the world, that he has given his Son” to teach us how to pray to Him as a son, and how to speak to one another as brothers and sisters. This prayer is given to us in Jesus, by Jesus and with Jesus ……… .. This road is “the life we live”, in which “we converse” , and have ‘relationships.'”

Be our guide Blessed Nicolas Roland

With the heart of a poor man, you gave up position and honour, you gave away your wealth and your health, to come to the help of poor and abandoned children.

With a gentle and humble heart, you, a young man with a vivacious character, managed to unite strength and patience, in order to take on the gentleness of the Child Jesus.

Your heart was often sad to see God so little known, so little loved and to see mankind disfigured. To repeat to everyone that God is love, and His greatness as a son of God, you founded a religious family completely devoted to Jesus in His Incarnation.

Enamoured for justice, you worked endlessly to that the child would be recognised in his dignity To achieve that, you have raised up loving and attentive teachers.

Priest moved by all human wretchedness, enlightened by the merciful love of the Father, you trained your brother priests to show God’s gentleness and to forgive others in God’s name.

Enlightened by the presence of God, your pure heart discovered Him in all kinds of work and in his suffering members.

As a spiritual guide, you knew how to calm anguished souls and taught them how to abandon themselves to God with confidence. You yourself kept calm in spite of trials.

As an apostle with a passionate heart, you suffered because of His name and until the hour of your death, you suffered misunderstandings but all in peace and joy, for the glory of His Kingdom.

Saint of the Day – 27 April – Blessed Nicolas Roland (1642-1678) Saint of the Day - 27 April - Blessed Nicolas Roland (1642-1678) Priest, Canon, Mystic, Apostle of the prayer, the poor, especially children, teacher and Founder of the Congregation of the…

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JOUR 527 - Assignment 2 - Aperture, Shutter and Composition (2/2)

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pilferingapples · 6 years

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Okay possibly useful dates if you are for instance researching firefighting in Paris for a fic:

1810-1811-Napoleon starts and organizes the military Paris Fire Brigade (in response to the incompetence of Parisian fire fighters during the 1810 Austrian Embassy Fire, which lasted twenty three hours).

A quick fic-relevant takeaway: Fires in canon era are likely to be fairly small and local (house fires , cooking fires) , with occasional factory or theater fires breaking out. It’s probably reasonable to have non-firefighter characters participating in fighting a fire, but post-1810 they’re most likely going to be working under the organization of the Fire Brigade, unless it’s a small enough fire to be put out very quickly.

1810- 1830 - the new Fire Brigade becomes increasingly efficient, but still relies heavily on assistance of bystanders and locals in firefighting. Industrialization creates new fire hazards for the city, requiring continual adaptations and procedures by the new department. Notably, cotton and tobacco processing , and those 25 sugar refineries, were great new risks. Also, residential buildings getting taller made a lot of firefighting techniques more complicated.

1830-1840- the Fire Brigade seems to vary greatly in its dependence on non-Brigade assistance; students (esp seminary students) and workers are noted most often in this: a fire at Saint-Sulpice in 1835 documents at least 99 civilian water-carriers and over a hundred building workers being recompensed for assistance with the firefighting, but at a fire at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in 1838 it’s reported that “the bourgeois were kept at a distance” -- though this may also reflect class issues (workers may have been seen not only as more expendable than the theater-going bourgeois, but also more likely to be competent). From the 1770s and into canon era, apparently, the various fire fighting groups of Paris insisted on having firefighters at the theaters (on account of the flame hazards caused by the lights, etc.)

There are nine theater fires from 1800-1840.

In general, even in the 1810s, it seems like the Paris Fire Brigade was pretty good for the time, and due to issues of specific industry and layout Paris also just wasn’t as badly affected by truly large fires as some of the other industrializing cities of the day. But that doesn’t mean no fires in any way; it’s totally justifiable to deploy the Blazing Drama Potential of a big fire in your fic! And characters can reasonably join in fighting it or not as it suits the plot:D

Main Source: David Garrioch, Fires and Firefighting in 18th and Early 19th-Century Paris , but also lots of assorted pages on the Paris Fire Brigade, google it, it’s cool

#Fire Fire Fire #Paris in Canon Era

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memo2dirtyfood · 2 years

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Rally of Montreal

We decided to go around the Montreal Old Port and visit Montreal Chinatown in the middle of our semester. We began in the Place d'Armes, where we saw a statue of Montreal's founder, Paul Chomedy de Maisonneuve. Actually, I've been there before, but I've never seen who owns the monument. Then, in front of this monument, we discovered one of Montreal's most important churches, the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal. Aside from the church, we discovered Saint-Sulpice Seminary, a symbol of French cultural history in North America. Later on, we ended up in Montreal's Chinatown, which I explored thoroughly for the first time. There are numerous ethnic and local businesses in Chinatown, as well as local restaurants that serve Chinese dishes; also, they make me feel as if I am in China. Unfortunately, my phone's battery died, and I was unable to photograph it. However, it was an amazing and memorable day with so many discoveries about Montreal’s history, and I am looking forward to going back next summer :)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_de_Chomedey,_Sieur_de_Maisonneuve

https://www.mtl.org/en/what-to-do/heritage-and-architecture/saint-sulpice-seminary

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urbanhermit · 3 years

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Blessed Agnes of Jesus (1602-1634, feast day – Oct. 19) is one such nun. Born in France, she was known for her piety, her deep prayer life, and her devotion both to the Blessed Sacrament and also the Blessed Virgin Mary, even from her childhood. And from the age of 7, she consecrated herself to the Blessed Virgin. St. Louis Marie de Montfort, the great promoter of the consecration to Jesus through Mary, mentions that at the time of her consecration, she used an iron chain to demarcate herself as a slave to Jesus and Mary, and that later in life, the Blessed Mother appeared to her, giving her a golden chain. He wrote: One day the Blessed Virgin appeared to Mother Agnes and put a gold chain around her neck to show her how happy she was that Mother Agnes had become the slave of both her and her Son. And Saint Cecilia, who accompanied our Lady, said to her, ‘Happy are the faithful slaves of the Queen of Heaven, for they will enjoy true freedom.’ (True Devotion to Mary, para. 170) At the age of 21, she entered the cloistered Dominican Monastery of Saint Catherine of Siena at Langeac. Here, aside from a life that Saint John Paul II said was “truly blessed,” she offered her prayers and sufferings for a particular priest in France. The Blessed Mother had appeared to her in a vision and instructed her, “Pray to my Son for the Abbot of Prébrac.” Just before her death, this priest, Msgr. Jean-Jacques Olier, came to her, and she recognized him because she had previously seen him in a vision. Still, she died before he was able to establish his soon to be famous seminary at Sainte-Sulpice. He ended up founding this seminary as well as the Sulpicians, who taught and continue to teach in seminaries, as a response to the Council of Trent’s desire to found seminaries to train clergy. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVNd8GjLuZO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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rabbitcruiser · 8 months

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The British, under General Jeffery Amherst, marched from Lachine through Nazareth Fief (the name used for Griffintown at this time), through the Recollet Gate and into the walled city of Montreal. The Articles of Capitulation of Montreal were signed on September 8 1760, in the British camp before the city of Montréal. Most of the North American fighting ended with the surrender of Montréal.

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On the topic of amitiés particulières, here’s a rather sad note from the resolutions of a young seminarian at Saint-Sulpice, François-Antoine-Calixte Frèze:

Particular friendships are what I most need to avoid; I must first closely watch my heart to prevent it from spilling out too much, and gently call it back when I have had this misfortune. If the temptation continues and gains a certain strength, it is necessary to start despising it, taking good care not to attach great importance to it since that would be the way to render it really difficult to repress; then by simply avoiding opportunities, but most of all by creating distractions with greater fervor and greater application of study; to do some mortification.

Frèze, who described Jesus Christ as “my God, my Savior, my model, my friend, my brother, my husband, my life to say it all in one word,” died in 1827 at the age of 21, while still in seminary.

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Mysterious letter linking 1,000 people to $1-billion Algonquin treaty likely fake, CBC investigation finds

Bill Mann says that in the fall of 2011, he received an envelope containing an 8½ x 11 colour photo of a letter written on what appeared to be animal skin. According to him, the letter, dated June 23, 1845, came from the Saint Sulpice Seminary in Montreal and had been damaged by fire and water. “Thankfully the writing was still discernible,” said Mann, a former chief administrative officer for…

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#1billion #Algonquin #bpositivenow #CBC #Fake #finds #Investigation #letter #linking #Mysterious #People #Treaty

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anastpaul · 6 years

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Saint of the Day – 21 May – St Eugene de Mazenod O.M.I. (1782-1861) Priest, Bishop, Founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Evangeliser, Missionary Preacher, Apostle of the poor and marginalised – born Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod on 1 August 1782 at Aix-en-Provence, southern France and died on 21 May 1861 at Marseille, France of cancer. When his body was exhumed in 1936 it was found to be incorrupt. Patronages – refugees, missionaries, families.

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Eugene de Mazenod was born into an aristocratic family, on 1 August 1782 and baptised the following day in the Église de la Madeleine in Aix-en-Provence. His father, Charles Antoine de Mazenod, was one of the Presidents of the Court of Finances and his mother was Marie Rose Joannis. Eugene began his schooling at the College Bourbon but this was interrupted by the events of the French Revolution. With the approach of the French revolutionary forces, the family was forced to flee to Italy. Image below - St Eugene aged 5.

He became a boarder at the College of Nobles in Turin but a move to Venice meant the end to formal schooling. With their money running out, Eugene’s father was forced to seek various employments, none of which were successful. His mother and sister returned to France – eventually seeking a divorce so as to be able to regain their property that had been seized. Eugene was fortunate to be welcomed by the Zinelli family in Venice. This is how it happened:

One day when Eugene was playing at the window of his house, Fr Bartolo Zinelli (1766-1803) appeared on the other side of the street and asked him, “Are you not afraid of wasting your time?” “Alas, responded Eugene, it is really awful, but what can I do? I am a foreigner here without any books available to me.” “Well, then”, replied Don Bartolo, “I am right in my library at the moment and here I have many books in Latin, Italian and French.” Having said this, he took up the stick that was used to bar the shutters and put a book on it and passed it over the narrow, approximately one and one half meter street.

After having read the book, Eugene, following the advice of his father, went to Don Bartolo’s house to thank him for this kind gesture. “Well,” said Don Bartolo, “do you see this lovely library? All of these books are available to you as well.” Then, Don Bartolo showed Eugene his study where he and his brother Don Pietro used to study and told him, “You can take the place here of my younger brother who has died.” Eugene could not contain his joy. “Well, then, you can begin tomorrow already.”

Fr Bartolo Zinelli took special care of Eugene and saw to his education in the well-provided family library where the young adolescent spent many hours each day and was a major influence in the human, academic and spiritual development of Eugene.

Once again the French army chased the émigrés from Venice, forcing Eugene and his father and two uncles to seek refuge in Naples for less than a year and, finally, to flee to Palermo in Sicily. Here Eugene was invited to become part of the household of the Duke and Duchess of Cannizaro as a companion to their two sons. Being part of the high society of Sicily became the opportunity for Eugene to rediscover his noble origins and to live a lavish style of life. He took to himself the title of ‘Comte’ (“Count”) de Mazenod, did all the courtly things and dreamed of a bright future.

Spiritual journey of conversion At the age of twenty, Eugene returned to France and lived with his mother in Aix en Provence. Initially he enjoyed all the pleasures of Aix as a rich young nobleman, intent on the pursuit of pleasure and money – and a rich girl who would bring a good dowry. Gradually he became aware of how empty his life was and began to search for meaning in more regular church involvement, reading and personal study and charitable work among prisoners. His journey came to a climax on Good Friday, 1807 when he was 25 years old. Looking at the sight of the Cross, he had a religious experience. The sight of the oblation of Jesus on the Cross, with his arms outstretched in love, led Eugene to respond in love: “What more glorious occupation than to act in everything and for everything only for God, to love Him above all else, to love Him all the more as one who has loved Him too late.”

Priest In 1808, he expressed his desire for dedication to Jesus the Saviour by beginning his studies for the priesthood at the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris and was ordained a priest at Amiens (Picardy), on 21 December 1811. Since Napoleon had expelled the Sulpician priest from the seminary, Eugene stayed on as a formator for a semester. As a member of the Seminary, notwithstanding personal risk, Eugene committed himself to serve and assist Pope Pius VII, who at this time was a prisoner of emperor Napoleon I at Fontainebleau. In this way, he experienced at firsthand, the suffering of the post-Revolutionary Church.

On his return to Aix, Father de Mazenod asked not to be assigned to a parish but to dedicate himself fully to evangelising those who were not being touched by the structures of the local church: the poor who spoke only the Provençal language, prisoners, youth, the inhabitants of poor villages who were ignorant of their faith. His constant message was, to invite people to enter into the same experience of Jesus, that he had at his conversion. Looking at everyone and every situation through the eyes of the Saviour, he showed the poor the human and spiritual dignity that was theirs and taught them how to live in relationship with the Saviour. The goal of his priestly preaching and ministry was always to lead others to develop themselves fully as humans, then as Christians and finally to become saints.

Oblates of Mary Immaculate On 25 January 1816, “impelled by a strong impulse from outside of himself” he invited other priests to join him in his life of total oblation to God and to the most abandoned of Provence. Initially called “Missionaries of Provence,” they dedicated themselves to evangelization through preaching parish missions in the poor villages, youth and prison ministry. In 181, a second community was established, at the Marian shrine of Notre Dame du Laus. This became the occasion for the missionaries to become a religious congregation, united through vows and the evangelical counsels. Changing their name to Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the group received papal approbation on 17 February 1826.

Foreign Missions In 1841, Bishop Bourget of Montreal invited the Oblates to Canada. At the same time there was an outreach to the British Isles. This was the beginning of an inspiring history of missionary outreach to the most abandoned peoples in Canada, United States, Mexico, England and Ireland, Algeria, Southern Africa and Ceylon during the Founder’s lifetime. In 200 years this zeal spread and took root in the establishment of the Oblates in nearly 70 countries.

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From 1837 to 1861, he was the Bishop of Marseille, in Provence (south-eastern France). During his episcopacy, he commissioned Notre-Dame de la Garde (image below), an ornate Neo-Byzantine basilica on the south side of the old port of Marseille . He inspired local priest Joseph-Marie Timon-David to found the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Marseille in 1852.

Towards the end of his life, Eugene had become very free. Faced with the prospect of the Cardinalate which had been promised and which slipped away from him because of political considerations, he had this to say: “After all, it is all the same whether one is buried in a red cassock or a purple one; the main thing is that the bishop gets to heaven”.

Shortly before his death on May 21, 1861, in keeping with his temperament, the elderly and seriously ill bishop said to those around him: “Should I happen to doze off, or if I appear to be getting worse, please wake me up! I want to die knowing that I am dying”. His last words to the Oblates were a testament that summed up his life: “Practice well among yourselves charity, charity, charity and outside, zeal for the salvation of souls”. Saint Eugene died on Pentecost Sunday, to the prayer of the Salve Regina. It was his final salute on earth to the one he considered as the “Mother of the Mission”.

St Eugene was Beatified on 19 October 1975 by Blessed Pope Paul VI and Canonised on 3 December 1995 by Sr Pope John Paul II.

21 May 2017 – more info from Vatican Resources on St Eugene: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/saint-of-the-day-21-may-st-eugene-de-mazenod-o-m-i/

Above - On the 150th anniversary of the Death of St Eugene in the Basilica he built, Notre-Dame de la Garde. Marseilles

#steugenedemazenod #may21steugenedemazenod #catholic #catholicism

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Mysterious letter linking 1,000 people to $1-billion Algonquin treaty likely fake, CBC investigation finds | CBC News

Bill Mann says that in the fall of 2011, he received an envelope containing an 8½ x 11 colour photo of a letter written on what appeared to be animal skin. According to him, the letter, dated June 23, 1845, came from the Saint Sulpice Seminary in Montreal and had been damaged by fire and water. “Thankfully the writing was still discernible,” said Mann, a former chief administrative officer for…

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demdread · 4 years

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On this day in 1865, Patrick Francis Healy (1834-1910) earned his doctorate degree in philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, becoming the first known African-American to achieve a PhD in higher education. However, throughout Healy’s career he was passing as white. His multiracial heritage allowed him opportunities for success not otherwise afforded to blacks in the late 19th century. Healy was born on February 27, 1830 in Macon, Georgia to parents Michael Healy, a white Irish slave owner, and Mary Eliza, a former slave, who was of mixed heritage. Up until Mary Eliza’s death in 1850, Healy’s parents lived in a faithful common-law marriage, providing a stable family net for Healy and his nine siblings. In order to give Healy and his siblings access to an education, Michael Healy staged their move to the North. Once in New York, Healy decided to identify as Irish-American. Because much of his heritage was white and he was fair, Healy chose to pass, enabling academic and professional accomplishments that would have been impossible if his background was openly known. Many of the Healy siblings did the same to get ahead: James Augustine Healy went on to become America’s first African-American Catholic priest and Archbishop of Portland, Michael Augustine Healy worked for the U.S. Revenue Service as a Third Lieutenant with a commission signed by President Abraham Lincoln, and Eliza Healy became the first African-American woman to be appointed as a mother superior at a Catholic convent in the U.S. After being enrolled at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, Healy found refuge in Catholicism. Throughout his time there, he refrained from identifying as a mixed-raced American and kept his African-American ancestry hidden. After graduating from Holy Cross, he worked towards becoming a Jesuit priest. In 1858, Healy was sent to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris, France, and later, the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he earned his doctorate in philosophy. During his journey, he became fluent in Latin, French, Italian, and German. In 1850, Healy became one of the first African-American Jesuits. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKSpJxlhvV/?igshid=1nlku1bbbl9ia

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pablolarah · 4 years

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The Church of Saint-Sulpice

It is a Roman Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the Latin Quarter of the 6th arrondissement. It is only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and thus the second largest church in the city. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. Construction of the present building, the second church on the site, began in 1646. During the 18th century, an elaborate gnomon, the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice, was constructed in the church.

Sulpitius (or Sulpicius) the Pious or "the Débonnaire" (died 17 January 644) was a 7th-century bishop of Bourges and saint.

Wallace fountain

Wallace Fountains are public drinking fountains named after, financed by and roughly designed by Sir Richard Wallace. The final design and sculpture is by Wallace's friend Charles-Auguste Lebourg. They are large cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, France, mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as one of the symbols of Paris.

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Médaille-miraculeuse

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Paris, France, is the chapel where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830 and requested the creation of the medal which came to be known as the Miraculous Medal. The Chapel was part of the mother house of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Catherine Labouré was a seminary sister (novice) there when she had her apparitions.

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal is more commonly referred to by its address, "140 rue du Bac", or simply the street on which it is situated, rue du Bac. .

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