Jean Eudes
See also: Holy Jean
Holy Jean Eudes , born with IH, Flowering ash, the November 14th 1601, deceased with Caen, the August 19th 1680, is a priest French.
Biography
After its secondary studies and theological in Caen, it enters in 1623 the all recent Congrégation of the Oratory of France, (Oratorien) with Paris, where it is accommodated by its founder, the cardinal Pierre de Bérulle.Ordered priest and returned in 1632 in its native Normandy to preach popular missions there, it notes the little of continuations that such efforts can know in the absence of a formed and educated clergy. It is the time when, in conformity with the directives of the Concile of Thirty, the Church starts to create Séminaire S.
In 1641, it founds in Caen an order, the congregation of the Sœurs of Notre-Dame de Charité, intended to receive Prostituée S in hearths or " refuges" soon widespread throughout the world.
In 1643, Jean Eudes leaves the Oratory which did not have vocation to frame Séminaire S, and it founds some with Caen.
It creates then a company of priests dedicated as well to the training of the seminarists and clergy as with popular preachings in the Paroisse S: the Company of the priests of Jesus and Marie, known as of the Eudiste S. It institutes seminars in Normandy then in Brittany.
Saint Jean Eudes, initiator of the liturgical worship of the hearts of Jesus and Marie, are one of the large schoolmasters French of spirituality at the 17th century: one owes him a whole of works of which several continue to be published.
At the 18th century, the Eudiste S fight the Jansénisme. The order is removed at the time of the French revolution, but is reconstituted in 1826.
The house généralice is with Rome. Eudistes are present in North America (Jean-Eudes college in Montreal), power station and of the South like in Africa.
Internal bonds
- Religious orders alphabetically
External bonds
- Site of the eudists
- Site of the oratory of France