Saint John Eudes

Saint John Eudes

Also known as

• Jean Eudes

Memorial

• 19 August

Profile

Farmer's son who attended the Jesuit college at Caen, France at age 14. Joined theCongregation of the Oratory of France. Studied at Paris and Aubervilliers in France. Priest. Ministered to plague victims. Missionary and preacher, working well over 100 missions. Worked against Jansenism. Established seminaries. Founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary Eudists on 25 March 1643 to promote virtuous secular parochial clergy not bound by vows, but dedicated to improving the clergy through seminaries and missions; due to opposition by Oratorians and Jansenists, he never obtained papal approval. Founded theSisters of Our Lady of Charity who worked for the welfare of penitent women. Author of the liturgical devotion of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Born

• 14 November 1601 at Ri, Normandy, France

Died

• 19 August 1680 at Caen, Normandy, France

Beatified

• 25 April 1909 by Pope Saint Pius X

Canonized

• 31 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI

Patronage

• Baie-Comeau, Québec, diocese of

Representation

• priest with or presenting the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Google Directory
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

Works

• Devotion to the Adorable Heart of Jesus
• Admirable Heart of the Most Holy Mother of God

Readings

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desires, and his disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. It is the work which God has given us to do unceasingly. - Saint John Eudes

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us. - Saint John Eudes

Father of mercies and God of all consolation, You gave us the loving Heart of your own beloved Son, because of the boundless love by which You have loved us, which no tongue can describe. May we render You a love that is perfect with hearts made one with His. Grant, we pray, that our hearts may be brought to perfect unity: each heart with the other and all hearts with the Heart of Jesus….and may the rightful yearnings of our hearts find fulfillment through Him: Our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. - Collect from Saint John Eudes' Mass, Gaudeamus, 1668

The Christian life is a continuation and completion of the life of Christ in us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing His life and His works, laboring and suffering in a holy and divine manner in the spirit of Jesus. - Saint John Eudes

The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian. - Saint John Eudes

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head. - Saint John Eudes

MLA Citation

• "Saint John Eudes". Saints.SQPN.com. 9 July 2010. Web. {today's date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-john-eudes/>

Category: Beatified by Pope Pius X, Born in France, Canonized by Pope Pius XI, Died in France, Saints Beati and Venerables, Saints who Founded Religious Congregations, Saints who were Eudists, Saints who were Missionaries, Saints who were Priests, Saints who were Writers  |  Trackback