Also known as:
Apostle of the Eucharist, Peter Julian Eymard, St. Peter Julian Eymard
EYMARD, PIERRE-JULIEN, blessed - Work of Rodin - Paris, Musée Rodin.
EYMARD, Pierre-Julien, Blessed. - Born at La Mure d'Isère (Grenoble) on 4 February 1811, died there on 1 August 1868. Having overcome family obstacles, he entered the Seminary of Grenoble in October 1831, from which he left ordained a priest on 20 July 1834. First assistant parish priest at Chatte, and then parish priest at Monteymard, he gave shining proofs of piety and zeal, so much so that he was held up as an example of perfection. Austere with himself, but generous with others, he exercised such a charm as to transform in a few years a parish, long abandoned, into a model of Christian life.
Having entered the Society of Mary, he was judged worthy to hold the offices of spiritual director at Belley, of provincial at Lyons, and of superior of the college of La Seyne-sur-Mer.
In the sanctuary of Fourvière the Madonna called him to found a religious Congregation consecrated to the perpetual adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament and to the eucharistic apostolate. Having assured himself of God's will, he began in Paris on 13 May 1836 the Congregation of the Religious of the Most Blessed Sacrament (which includes priests and brothers) and later that of the Handmaids of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He also founded the Aggregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament to unite the faithful and especially priests to the life of adoration of his Institute, forming a great family of adorers.
For 12 years he labored at the expansion of the eucharistic kingdom with living faith and ardent love, amid countless crosses and humiliations, heroically borne. His preaching was collected in five highly esteemed little volumes of elevations. He was beatified in 1925.
His Congregation, scattered in all parts of the world, continues the work of the founder, carrying out his motto: «Thy eucharistic kingdom come always and everywhere».
Bibliography4 worksanon., Un religieux du St-Sacrament. Le b. P. J. E., 2 vols., Paris 1928; P. Fossati, L'apostolo dell'Eucaristia b. P. J. E., Milan 1928; P.
BIBL.: anon., Un religieux du St-Sacrament. Le b. P. J. E., 2 vols., Paris 1928; P. Fossati, L'apostolo dell'Eucaristia b. P. J. E., Milan 1928; P. Quirihua, Gelubonlige Pater E. Apostel van het allerh. Sacrament, Nienega 1935; P. Trochu, Le b. P. J. E., Lyons 1949.
Evers, Enrico. “Eymard, pierre-julien, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 924. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eymard-pierre-julien-beato.
MLA
Evers, Enrico. “Eymard, pierre-julien, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 924. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eymard-pierre-julien-beato.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_eymard_pierre_julien_beato,
author = {Evers, Enrico},
title = {Eymard, pierre-julien, beato},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {924},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/eymard-pierre-julien-beato}
}
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