ST.PETER JULIAN EYMARD PRIEST AND FOUNDER OF THE SACRAMENTINI.
He was born on 4th February 1811 as last child out of ten in which eight of them died in infancy.He too had a bad health and had to abandon the desire to become a missionary. On his first communion decided to become priest in which the idea was opposed by his father.
HIS LIFE AS A MISSIONARY TO SAINTHOOD.
When he was 20 years old he joined a seminary being ordained in1834 serving first as a diocesan priest. In 1839 became a member of newly born congregation of Marist Fathers in Lyon. He had always been attracted to contemplating God’s love in the Eucharist, his adoration was more than contemplating, it was the heart and soul of his charitable activity “ Eucharist as the key to spiritual awakening”.
In May 1856 he founded congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris. Despite his health deteriorating he never lost his apostolic zeal. He died in his home country when he was only 57 years old on August 1st in 1868. He was beatified in 1925 by Pope Pius XI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII.
ST. PETER JULIAN EYMARD ,
PRAY FOR US.
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