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Blessed Jean Eudes
French missionary and founder of the Eudists and of the Congregation of Our
Lady of Charity; author of the liturgical worship of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus
and Mary; b. at Ri, France, 14 Nov., 1601; d. at Caen, 19 Aug., 1680. He was a
brother of the French historian, François Eudes de Nézeray. At the age of
fourteen he took a vow of chastity. After brilliant studies with the Jesuits at
Caen, he entered the Oratory, 25 March, 1623. His masters and models in the
spiritual life were Fathers de Bérulle and de Condren. He was ordained priest 20
Dec., 1025, and began his sacerdotal life with heroic labours for the victims of
the plague, then ravaging the country. As a missionary, Father Eudes became
famous. Since the time of St. Vincent Ferrer, France had probably not seen a
greater. He was called by Olier the prodigy of his age
. In 1641 he founded the
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, to provide a refuge for women
of ill-fame who wished to do penance. The society was approved by Alexander VII,
2 Jan., 1666. With the approbation of Cardinal de Richelieu and a great number
of others, Father Eudes severed his connection with the Oratory to establish the
Society of Jesus and Mary for the education of priests and for missionary work.
This congregation was founded at Caen, 25 March, 1643, and was considered a most
important and urgent work (see EUDISTS).
Father Eudes, during his long life, preached not less than one hundred and
ten missions, three at Paris, one at Versailles, one at St-Germaine-en-Laye, and
the others in different parts of France. Normandy was the principal theatre of
his apostolic labours. In 1674 he obtained from Clement X six Bulls of
indulgences for the Confraternities of the Sacred Heart already erected or to be
erected in the seminaries. He also established the Society of the Heart of the
Mother Most Admirable - which resembles the Third Orders of St. Francis and St.
Dominic. This society now numbers from 20,000 to 25,000 members. Father Eudes
dedicated the seminary chapels of Caen and Coutances to the Sacred Hearts. The
feast of the Holy Heart of Mary was celebrated for the first time in 1648, and
that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1672, each as a double of the first class
with an octave. The Mass and Office proper to these were composed by Father
Eudes, who thus had the honour of preceding the Blessed Margaret Mary in
establishing the devotion to the Sacred Hearts. For this reason, Pope Leo XIII,
in proclaiming his virtues heroic in 1903, gave him the title of Author of the
Liturgical Worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Holy Heart of Mary
. Father
Eudes wrote a number of books remarkable for elevation of doctrine and
simplicity of style. His principal works are: Le Royaume de Jésus
; Le
contrat de l'homme avec Dieu par le Saint Baptême
; Le Mémorial de la vie
Ecclésiastique
; Le Bon Confesseur
; Le Prédicateur Apostolique
; Le C;ur
Admirable de la Très Sainte Mère de Dieu
. This last is the first book ever
written on the devotion to the Sacred Hearts. His virtues were declared heroic
by Leo XIII, 6 Jan., 1903. The miracles proposed for his beatification were
approved by Pius X, 3 May, 1908, and he was beatified 25 April, 1909.
uvres Complètes du Vén. J. Eudes (1905-); MONTIGNY, Vie du R. P. Jean Eudes (Paris, 1827); HÉRAMBOURG, Le Père Eudes, ses vertus (Paris, 1869); MARTINE, Vie du P. Eudes (Caen, 1880); BOULAY, Vie du V. Jean Eudes (Paris); JOLY, Le Vén. Père Eudes (Paris, 1907); LE DORÉ, Le Père Eudes, Premier Apôtre des Sacrés C;urs de Jésus et de Marie (Paris, 1870); Les Sacrés C;urs et le V. P. Eudes (Paris, 1891); ORY, Les Origines de Nôtre Dame de Charité (Abbeville, 1891); NILLES, De Rationibus festorum SS. Cordium Jesu et Mariæ (Innsbruck, 1889).
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