The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-30
MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. JANUARY 80 Ie7t
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12 missions, without reckoning those given by
lis congregation, which amounted to ten or
WE'VE year. Yet, in spite of these labors,
10 became the victim of incessant persecution
Ind misrepresentati till his death. A noted
cclesIastic writing to him on one OCCASION
Haid AS the zeal and ability with which God
mas hlled you are so uncommon, SO do not inn
lgine that your persecution will be an ordinary
one; and it must come frem-FsalIy good people
extraordinary
So it came to pass, at Rome all Father Man
noury's endeavoTs TO obtains the aa thoriaatien
OF thefIioly See was defeated by tire Inachina-
lions of the Oratorians and the Jansenists, who
protested against tae " uselessnessn of his
new Congregation in the first place, and in the
next on the ambition" which had induced
Father Eudes to separate himself from them
Then all his warmest friends and supporters
dled, including the Bishop of his diocese. He
was replaced by Mgr. Mole, who had been
strongly prepossessed against Father Eudes,
and therefore easily fell into the hands of his
enemies. Finally, decision was given against
him, closing his seA9inary at Caen, destroying
his chapel, and especially the altar, dispensing
his congregation, and refusing them permission
to ofhciate in any church in the diocese. Fa-
Their Eudes received this cruel and unjust sem
tence in perfect silence. Jesus aateia tacebat
The manifest injustice of the proceeding
reused the other Bishops to take up his cause
and he was at once empowered to open semina-
RES, ana give missions at Ceutances and in
at1lctIons he was cheered and encouraged by
Catharine de Bar, who afterwards became n
nun under the name of Mother Matifde of the
blessed Sacrament. On this subject our BIZ
ograDher says:
" The greatest men in the Church of God
have almost always chosen devout and pions
women to he their co-operators i'm their holy
undertakings God does not choose that men
should be alone; and when two beings are
thus united together for the glory of God and
the welfare of souls, it is difficult to say which
of them reaps the greatest advantage, for
what is wanting in the one is supplied by the
other,s and together they walk bravely and
conrageonsly up the thorny and steep path
which leads to eternal life"
st, Pduia with st. Jerome St. Ofympias
with st. Chrysostom, St. Jeanne FRANCHISE de
Chantai with st. Francis of Sales, St. Theresa
with st. John of the Cross, Agnes de Langeac
with M. Olier, Mdlle. de Gras with ST. Vincent
of Paul, and a host of others are given as ex-
amples of this undeniable truth, and then the
writer continues:
Father Eudes had the same kind of init
macy and atfectiouate relation with Catherine
de Bar. The one sustained the other in the
affections and prosecutions of which both
were the objects, and to Father Eudes especial
ly the ,encouragement she gave him was in
valuable"
A fresh trouble soon arose in the conduct of
the superior of his first house of refuge, who
disappeared suddenly one day, taking With her
all the furniture and all her companions save
trusted to the Sisters of the Visitation and tins
Mother Patiu elected superior. AS the good
done by this house was incOntestable Mgr
Mole was compelled to give it his appreciation;
Prived Kim of his Office as their director. This
BLOW was received as patiently as all the rest
on our way, serving the house dis much as we
can for the loye of our Lord and His Blessed
Mother"
But the more he was mortified by his do
cesar, the more were his services in request
elsewhere. NJ. 0lier sent for him to Paris,
where lie gave mission with incredible sue
cess. NJ. Olier talks of him as " that eXtTaor-
binary man, thc-4fsarvel of his age, who has
the special gift of winning hearts for God"
Soon afterwards Mgr. Mole died, aud his sue
cessor, though at first deceived by the represent
tations of the Oratorians at last did full Justice
to Father Endes, and in 1853 restored him both
his seminary and his congregation at Caeu, and
that with great honor. But fresh worries and
prosecutions arose, in which he was again
greatly comiorted and sustained by Madame de
Carmilly, widow lady OF npblC biIth, of whom
he had become the director. Mgr. HaTlay,
Archbishop of Rouen, summoned him to open
n fresh seminary in that capital, which he sue
ceeded in doing in spite oE.his enemies. The
Jansenists ;reFe becoming formidable sect:
but Father Eudes did not approve of contro-
" He thought it useless" he said, q to speak
in public of hertsy of which the people
yet scarcely knew the existence; and that the
greatest mischief done by the J3nsenists was
having made the most iucomprehensible mys-
teries subjects OF common conversation,
peeially among women and iaymen, for such
disputes eHgender doubts, and doubts lead to
iRcredUlity aud infdeNty."
How true this is in the present day, let those
say whose ears are hourly assailed by discus
sions ON every possible article of faith, which
the young of both sexes seem to- imagine may
be settled by the mere 4efee-eGh 4nan-reason.
But we must hurry to conctus&R. a fresh
missive to Rome produced only fresh diilieulties
and emb0rTassmcnts to Father Eudes. He even
fell into disgrace with the King, Louis NV,
before whom lie preached Retreat which had
been most favoraGly received, qeShough some
stern and uupalatable truths lad heeu told
both To the King and Queen. He had, how
ever, the consolation in 1866 of obtaining the
confirmation of his institute of Notre Dame
dc Charlie ,du Refuge" as a distinct religious
order, with the rule ofsSt Augustine. The
nuns instantly took the three vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience, adding fourth 10
work continually for the salvation of penitents.
Two years after, the Superior having died,
fresh Que was chosen from among the new COM
munity, and the nuns of the Visitation returned
to their own convent. Thus the work of the
FGood Shepherd" was fairly begun, the mother
house being at Caen; and in few years seven
fresh homes were started in different parts of
france. 1t was well that he had this'little
consolation, for the affairs of his seminaries
got worse and worse. In disgrace with the
King he Enfled in obta ining the promised fonR-