Father Eudes, apostolic missionary, and his foundations, 1601-1874
Publisher: Thomas Richardson and Son
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London, England
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: BOOK I.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: 1601 — 1615.; title: Inauguration of the medallions of the three brothers Eudes,  at Ei, their birth-place, 1853.  —  Statue of Eudes de  Mezeray, perpetual secretary and member of the French  Academy, in the Place du Louvre.  —  Monument erected to  the three brothers in the Plaoe at Ar^entan, 1866.  —  Isaac  Eudes, and Martha Corbin, his wife.  —   Birth of John  Eudes, of his brothers and sisters.  —  His childhood and  early education.  — He enters the Jesuits' College at Caen.   — His conduct, his success.  —   ife returns to Ri.  —   His voca-  tion.  —  Opposition of his parents.  —   He receives the tonsure  and Minor Orders         1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: 1615 — 1625.; title: State of society in France at the beginning of the seventeenth century.  —  John Eudes' parents permit him to fol-  low his vocation.  —  He is admitted into the Congregation ]  of the Oratory, March, 1623.  —  Object of this Congregation.   —  M. de Berulle makes him preach the word of God.  —    His success.  —   He is ordained sub-deacon on the 21st  December, 1624, deacon in Lent, 1625, and priest in the  following December.  —   His first mass.  —  FranciB Eudes de  Mezeray, and Charles Eudes du d'Houay     16; title: CHAPTER III.; title: 1625 — 1632.; title: Political movements.  —  Richelieu.  —  Father Joseph  —  Austerities of Father Eudes.  —   His illness.  —   Retreat at the  Seminary of our Lady of Aubervilliers.  —   Studies during  this retreat.  —  The plague in France.  —   At Ecouche.  —   Self-  devotion of Father Eudes and of Father Laurens, parish  priest of St. Christophe.  —  The plague at Argentan, Father  Eudes hastens there.  —  The plague at Caen.  —  Heroio  charity of Father Eudes.  —   He takes up his abode amongst  the plague-stricken.  —   The saint's meadow.  —  The plague in  the house of the Oratory at Caen.  —   Illness of Father  Eudes.  —   Letter from the Carmelites at Caen.  —   Francis  Eudes de Mezeray, Charles Eudes du d'Houay     30; title: CHAPTER IV; title: 1632 — 1641.; title: Pulpit eloquence at the beginning of the XVTIth century.  —   Father Eudes' success as a preacher.  —   Mgr. de Matignon,  Bishop of Coutances ; missions in his diocese.  —  Union of  prayers with the Carmelites of Caen.  —  Mgr. d'Angennes,  Bishop of Bayeux ; missions in his diocese.  —  Mgr. de  Harlay de Sancy, Bishop of St. Malo, formerly an Ora-  torian ; missions in his diocese.  —   Many Protestants con-  verted.  —   Mission at Fresno, in the diocese of Bayeux;  mission at Ri, Father Eudes' birth-place.  —  Francis Eudes  de Mezeray, and Charles Fades du d'Houay.  —  Admirable  self-devotion of Charles Eudes du d'Houay, plague at  , Argentan, 1638.  —  Mission in the Church of St. Stephen, at  Caen; success.  —  Mgr. Cospean, Bishop of Lisieux ; mission  in his diocese.  —   1641, Father Eudes named Superior of the  Oratory at Caen.  —   Missions in the dioceses of Seez and  of Coutances.  —   Father Eudes establishes conferences for  his missionaries and other priests       48; title: CHAPTER V.; title: 1641-1642.; title: Father de Condren, Superior General of the Oratory, his  virtues.  —   Fervour of Father Eudes.  —   Death of Father de  Condren.  —  Father de Bourgoing, his successor, 1611.  —   Father Eudes endeavours to provide an asylum for  penitent women ; beginning of the Order of our Lady of  Charity of the Refuge.  —  Richelieu and the seminaries.  —   Constantly recurring difficulties with regard to their es-  tablishment in France.  —  Mgr. de Harlay, Archbishop of  Rouen, appoints Father Eudes head of all missions in  Normandy.  —  Father Eudes' superiors endeavour to keep  him away from that province.  —  Persecutions and calumxues.  —   Cardinal Richelieu Bends for Father Eudes   63; title: BOOK II.; title: 1642 — 1658.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: 1642 — 1644.; title: Father Eudes' calmness and firmness.  —  Cardinal de Richelieu  directs Mgr. Beaumont de Perefixe to consult with  Father Eudes regarding the letters patent necessary for  the erection of seminaries.  —  Father Eudes takes the ad-  vice of his friends about leaving the Oratory.  —  Death of  Cardinal de Richelieu.  —   Father Eudes decides to establish his first seminary at Caen ; his f atnre fellow-labourers.  —   Father Eadea definitely leaves the Oratory on the 26th  March, 1643.  —  Congregation of Jesus and Mary.  —  Regret  and dissatisfaction of the members of the Oratory.  —   Seminaries in general.  —  Principal festivals of the Congre-  gation.  —  Different missions.  —  Proceedings of Mgr. de  Matignon and Mgr, d'Angennes.  —  Death of Louis XIII.  —   Its consequences.  —   Attacks on Father Eudes.  —  Father  Mannoury starts for Rome.  —  Death of Isaac Eudes.   —  Francis Eudes de Mezeray and CharleB Eudes da  d'Houay 85; title: CHAPTER II; title: 1644-1648.; title: Father Mannoury at Rome.  —   Jansenists there.  —  After ineffectual efforts he is recalled by his superior in 1645.  —    Assembly of the clergy of France, in 1645.  —   Request presented by Father Eudes to this assembly.  —   He frames his  constitutions.  —  Fresh troubles.  —  Memorial against Father  Endes, presented to the Queen by the Oratorians.  —   "Various missions  —  Death of Mgr. d'Angennes.  —   Serious  illness of Father Eudes ; his recovery.  —  Mission at Autun,  in 1648; its results.  —  The great men of the Church, and  the women who have helped them.  —  Missions.  —  Mgr. Mole  succeeds Mgr. d'Angennes in the See of Bayenx.  —  His  prejudice against Father Eudes.  —  Constant support of  Mgr. de Harlay, Archbishop of Rouen.  —  Father Eudes  presents a memorial to the Queen, touching the troubles  of the time.  —  Mezeray and Charles d'Houay     112; title: CHAPTER III.; title: 1648-1651; title: Father Mannoury's seoond journey to Rome.  —  Support of  the King, the Queen, and M. de Fontenoy, the Ambassa-  dor.  —  Pope Innocent X. approves the Seminary at Caen.  —   Purchase of the house called the Old Mission.  —   Mgr. Mole  prohibits the missionaries from acting in his diocese.  —   Various missions in the diocese of Coutances.  —  Death of  the Baron de Renty.  —   Illness of Father Eudes, his re-  covery.  —  Missions in 1650.  — Persecution from Mgr. Mole.   —  Mgr. Auvry entrusts the direction of his Seminary to  Father Eudes.  —   Mgr. Mole gives his approval to the insti-  tution of the Daughters of our Lady of Charity of the  Refuge, February 8, 1651.  —  Temporary direction of this  community by the nuns of the Visitation.  —   Mother Patin.   —  Mgr. Mole deprives Father Eudes of the direction of  this house, and gives it to Father Legrand, parish priest  of St. Julien, at Caen         131; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: 1651.  —   1658.; title: Father Eudes invited by Father Olier to preach a mission  at St. Sulpice.  —  Father Olier announces him from the  pulpit as the marvel of his age.  —  Moral condition of the  Faubourg St. Germain.  —  Death of Mgr. Mole, Bishop of  Bayeux.  —  1653.  —  The chapel of the Seminary at Caen re-  opened.  —   Mgr. Servien, Bishop of Bayeux.  —   This prelate  is prejudiced against the Eudists.  —  Father Eudes succeeds in dispelling his prejudices.  —  Mgr. de Matignon  transferred to the See of Lisieux.  —  He entrusts his Seminary to the Kudists.  —  The Ursulines at Lisieux choose  Father Eudes for their director.  —   Father Eudes' constitu-  tions.  —  M. Blouet de Camilly.  —  Fresh persecutions.  —   Affair of Marie Desvallees.  —  The Bishop's favourable  judgment.  —  Success of several missions.  —  Mgr. Servien's  support henceforth assured.  —  Mezeray and the French  Academy.  —  Queen Christina of Sweden.  —  Eulogy of the  three brothers, by M. Patin, Rector of the French Academy, 1866 152; title: BOOK III.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: 1658 — 1660.; title: Mgr. Harlay de Chanvallon, Archbishop of Rouen, offers  Father Eudes an establishment in that city.  —  Father  Dufour, priest of Aulnay, a Jansenist, and the Ursulines  of Caen : accusation against Father Eudes.  —  His modera-  tion with regard to the Jansenists.  —  Troubles in the Con-  gregation.  —  Plan of instruction for the Caen Seminary;  conditions made by the town.  —  Mgr. Servien, Bishop of  Bayeux, gives his approbation to the Feast of the Sacred  Heart of the Mother of God, January 17, 1659.  —  Missions.   —  Hermitage at the Ursuline Convent.  —  Mission at Quinze  Vingts in Paris, 1660  —  Mission preached before the Queen  at St. Germain des Pres; Father Eudes' success   170; title: CHAPTER II.; title: 1660 — 1666.; title: Father Eudes sends Father Boniface to Rome to solicit the  approbation of the Holy See for his Congregation.  —  Im-  prudent proceedings of this envoy.  —  Father Eudes  preaches before Queen Anne of Austria, in the church of  the Benedictines of the Blessed Sacrament.  —  Three  Eudists sent to China; their death.  —   The Carmelites at  Caen choose Father Eudes for their superior.  —   Divers  missions.  —  The first stone of the seminary at Caen is laid.   —  Father Eudes' visit to the Monastery of Clairvaux.  —   The institution of the Daughters of our Lady of Charity  of the Refuge erected into a Religious Order, the 22nd  January, 1666.  —  Vows taken by the Religious on the  Feast of the Ascension, 1666; Father Elides' sermon.  —   The Order spreads to Rennes, Hennebon, Vannes, Tours  and La Bocnelle ; general assembly of the Order at the  Monastery of Caen.  —  Nuns of our Lady of Charity of the  Refuge in Paris: their establishment.  —   Father Eudes'  two brothers from 1660 to 1666 184; title: CHAPTER III.; title: 1666-1677; title: Divers missions.  —  Mgr. de Maupas gives his Seminary to the Eudists, 1667.  —  Missions.  —   Mgr. de la Vieuville, Bishop of Rennes, entrusts the direction of his Seminary to the Eudists, 1670.  —  The solemn celebration of the Feast of the Adorable Heart of Jesus Christ, on the 31st of August, an<2t that of the Heart of Mary, on the 8th of February.  —  Father Fudes forms, at Rennes, the Society of the Children of the Admirable Mother, of the third Order of our Lady of Charity of the Refuge.  —   Father Eudes goes to Paris in 1671, on business connected with the Congregation.  —  Visits Mgr. de Harlay, Archbishop of Paris; is chosen by this prelate to give a mission at Versailles, ordered by Louis XIV.  —  Father Eudes and Mascaron at Versailles.  —  He is presented to Louis XTV.  —  Results of this mission.  —   The parish and community of St. Josse.  —   Mgr. de Maupas asks for Father Eudes as his coadjutor.  —   Father Eudes numerous occupations.  —  His intercourse with Madame Francoise Renee de Lorraine, Abbess of Montmartre.  —   The feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated for the first time in the Congregation, in 1673.  —   The first authorization of this feast due to Father Eudes, not, as has been supposed, to the Venerable Margaret Mary Alacoque.  —   Father Eudes summoned by the king, to give a mission at St. Germain, March 11th, 1673.  —   Father Eudes sends Father Bonnefont to Rome.  —   His enemies discover Father Boniface's memorial in the chancellor's office at Rome.  —   This memorial sent to Louis XIV.  —   Father Eudes exiled to Normandy, he disowns the memorial.  —   The king continues inflexible.  —   Father de Bonnefont returns to Rome.  —   Father Eudes' last mission at St. Lo 204; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: 1677-1680.; title: Father Eudes' illness.  —   Request to the king in 1678.  —   The king summons him to Paris.  —   He is presented by Mgr. de Harlay.  —  The king receives him kindly.  —  His infirmities increased by this journey.  —   Death of his brother, Charles Eudes du d'Houay.  —   General assembly, 26th June, 1680.  —  Father Eudes asks for a successor.  —   Father Blouet de Camilly appointed Superior General.  —   Father Eudes' humility.  —   His last illness, and his death, August 19, 1680.  —   Respect shown to his memory.  —   His funeral.  —   His virtues.  — His portrait by Father le Beurier.  —   His eulogy by Mgr. Huet.  —  Refutation of the opinion expressed by the learned prelate in hie book, Origines de Caen.  —   Three principal characteristics of Father Eudes.  —   Death of Francis Eudes de Mezeray.  —   Words of Pias IX. in regard to Father Eudes   225; title: PIEST APPENDIX.; title: 1680-1782.; title: Superiors General from 1680 to 1792.  —   Their government.  —   The Congregation of Jesus and Mary at the time of the French Revolution.  —  Father Hebert, coadjutor of Father Cousin, Superior General, and director of the house in Paris, is named confessor to Louis XVI.  —  Is martyred with nine of his brethren at the Cannes, on the 2nd of September, 1792.  —   Different foundations in which members of the Congregation have co-operated       241; title: SECOND APPENDIX.; title: FATHER EUDES FOUNDATIONS.; title: 1792 — 1869.; title: Exhumation of Father Eudes ; his remains transferred to the Church of La Gloriette, at Caen.  —  Destination of the old Eudist establishments.  —   The Congregation re-constituted by the efforts of Father Blanchard, an old Eudist.  —  Its progress since 1826.  —   Superiors General.  —  Institutions directed by the Eudist fathers in 1869.  —  Orders of our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, and of our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, from 1792 to 1869 — Conclusion            274