Founder of Eucharistic Devotion to be Canonized The founder of a wide­ February 4, 1811, of middle working for the' headmaster Father Eymard left the par­ gation of Priests of the more than a million members* Bishop Asks Support spread devotion in the Catho­ class parent*. His father, Juli­ during his free time. ish in 1839 and, with his bish­ Blessed Sacrament in Paris besides spending time in ador­ lic Church will be canonized an Eymard, a cutler by trade, op's permission, entered the with one companion. Father ation, provide materials, need­ When he was 17 he worked Marist Fathers novitiate in ed for exposition.. as a saint Sunday, Decem­ suffered for his faith during Raymond de Cuers. For Catholic Uni\ersify ber 9. the Reign of Terror in 1794. for the chaplain of an insti­ Lyons. He took his vows as a tution for sick and wayward Marist on February 16, 1840. The first solemn exposition When Father Eymnard died His mother, Marie Madeleine Father Jean Claude Colin, on August 1,1868, the Blessed My dear People: Pope John will make the Peiorse—his father's second women in Grenoble in return of the Blessed Sacrament took !' who founded the society in place on January 7, 1857. At Sacrament Fathers had fir* official proclamation in color­ wife—took Peter, when he for Latin lessons."' 1816, appointed Father Eym­ houses in France, and Bel­ On tbe first Sunday of Advent, December 2, 1962, ful Vatican rites which will first, the Blessed Sacrament we shall have the annual appeal for the support of was still a baby, to visit the ard spiritual director of a pre­ was exposed three days a gium. They now hay* 104 mm also add two other saints to Young Eymard's father still paratory seminary in Belley. houses, divided among 14 the Catholic University of America. Blessed Sacrament with her did not Want nim to become week—Sundays, Tuesdays and the Church's calendar of frequently. Thursdays. JFather Eymafd'i provinces and" 1 vice province, For seventy-three years this University under the a priest He was finally per­ In 1844, he was appointed in 28 countries. Their U.8. feasts. suaded by Father Joseph H. aim was to\ have exposition direction and with the aid of the Bishops of trie United Js. Blessed Peter showed a live­ Provincial Superior of the headquarters are in New York Guibert, O.M.I., later Cardinal- Marists in Lyons; in 1845, di­ continuously from Holy Satur­ States, has been fulfilling the special mission given The new saints will be St ly devotion to the Blessed day to the following Holy city. it by its founder, Pope Leo XIII, Archbishop of \Paris, to leit rector general of the Third Peter Julian Eymard, founder Sacrament from his- earliest his son enter the novitiate of Thursday. as a national center of Catholic of a religious order dedicated years but did not make his Order of Mary; and was Visi­ Father Eymard's causa wu learning and culture. It lias lerved first Comunmion until he was the Oblates of Mary Immacu­ tor General of the Marists introduced in 1899 and ha wis to perpetual adoration, of the> late in Marseilles. Peter en­ Pope Pius IX signed pre- and strengthened the entire educa­ 12. The influence of the from 1846 to 1850, when he lininary documents of approv­ beatified by Pope Piui XI on Blessed Sacrament; St Frant tered in June, 1829, but he replaced an ailing master of July 12, 1925. tional system! of the country by cesco Maria Croese, a Ca­ austere Jansenist heresy in al for the new congregation, supplying thousands of teachers, France blocked younger chil­ had to leave because of poor novices. puchin brother, and St. An­ health six months later. January 5, 1859. The final ap­ The cures attributed to many diocesan! official!, as well is dren from Communion. Peter probation was given on June tonio Pucci, a Servite priest. The following year, on Feb- Blessed Peter—two an neces­ presidents and reeton of various also wanted to receive the sac­ Peter Julian's father died 3, 1863. By this time, two rament often. ruary 2, while he was praying sary for canonization—lnvolva colleges, seminaries, and. univer­ The Blessed Sacrament after a short illness on March other houses had been found­ a French priest and an Aus­ sities. Fathers, the order established 3, 1831, and Peter was free to at the shrine of Our Lady of ed, one in Marseilles and one The priests °at La Mure Fourviere in Lyons, Our Lady tralian housewife. Ileal in 1856, has parallel groups study for the priesthood. Ha in Angers. The total enrollment of .the for nuns and lay people—the would not allow this So he was admitted to the diocesan is said to have asked him to The Sacred Congregation of Catholic University for the present Servants of the Blessed Sac­ went to the shrine of Notre seminary in Grenoble in Octo­ found a congregation devoted In 1858, with Marguerite Kites in 1956 approved as academic year approximates 9,000 Dame du Laus, 37 miles away, ber, 1831, and was ordained to honoring the Blessed Sac­ Gillot, who became Mother miraculous the cure of Fath­ students. The traditional emphasis rament and the People's rament Eucharistic League. and obtained the permission July 20, 1834. Marguerite of the Blessed Sac­ er Eugene Verdier of Bourgea on advanced study is being maintained and the propor­ of a missionary to receive the rament, he founded the Serv- from tuberculosis of the bone. tion of more than two-thirds graduate and professional The League's young peo­ sacrament every Sunday. Father Eymard submitted In October, he was assigned his idea of founding a society anfrof the Blessed Sacrament degrees given at Commencement last June is unique ple's branch is called Catho­ as curate in Chattee. Three so that women could share in The other cure involved among all the universities of America. Such emphasis, lic Youth Adoration (CYA) YOUNG PETER Eymard years later, when he was only of adoration of the Blessed Mrs. Mariadora C. Bartels, of wanted to study for the priest­ Sacrament to Pope Pius IX the vocationjjf adoration. 1 together with the great increase in enrollment, gives Society and draws hundreds 26, he was appointed pastor order now numbers 400 me South Caulfield, near Mel­ rise to serious financial problems. of Rochester youngsters to a hood, but his father would who replied on June 29,1853: in Monteynard. "It is a beautiful thought. If bers in 16 housed— bourne, Australia. Mrs. Bar­ monthly holy hour at St Jos­ not consent He wanted hij tels was suffering from an­ Student tuition and fees meet ony the direct costs eph's Church. •on to take over his thriving Tbe people there had not it materializes, I will give it my encouragement.!' Father Eymard organized gina pectoris arid myocardial of instruction of less than one-half of the total ex­ business. So Peter Julian had a pastor for over- thirty degeneration, Her physicians A BIOGRAPHY of the new two associations te foster de­ penses. The cost of operation and maintenance, which saved up his money, bought a votion to the Eucharist: the pronounced the heart trouble have Increased enormously, must come from other saint as released by NCWC Latin grammar and started years, since the French Revo­ He was released from his lution at the end of the 18th vows as a Marist so that he Priests* Eucharistic League, incurable. She began a novena •1 sources. Public schools derive their support from taxes. News Service from Rome is studying on his own. to Blessed Peter Eymard in as follows: could devote himself to the which now has 150,000 mem­ Most private schools carry on through endowments and century. Within two years, all bers, who spend an hour •< July, 1949, and on his feast private contributions. The Catholic University of Ameri­ Peter Julian received his work of organizing the new Blessed Peter was born at first formal education at a the parishioners had returned congregation. On June 1, week before the Blessed Sac­ day, August 3, suddenly felt i ca depends on the Annual Collection of the first Sun­ to reception of the sacra­ rament; and the People's better. The following day, ner - f». day of Advent. La Mure d'Isere near Gren­ boarding school in La Mure, 1856, Father Eymard opened oble in the French Alps on where he paid his way by ments. the first house of the Congre­ Eucharistic League, whose doctor pronounced her-cured. May I ask, therefore, with renewed confidence wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm HIIIMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII^ your generous assistance In the cause of our National Pontifical University. Whatever is given will redound to the entire Church In America and yield rich fruits. Between Is Agqiornqmen to Modernism ? with Indignation and ona In our own vineyard, wonders from what source the With a grateful blessing, I am representative of a presum­ The Eyes ably responsible newspaper Your devoted Shepherd In Christ, With Truth Italy's Press Ridicules Council got his line of thought i:i; By grim irony, the words Pittsburgh _(RNS)— The "The clergy of Bergamo, This later aim, he hinted, appeared on the eve of the ecumenical spirit does not de­ By FR. ROBERT A. GRAHAM ness to use any stick, Includ­ from which Roncalll comes," Is Pope John's objective at the Pope's 81st birthday. His mand of Catholics that they ^ Religious News Service ing the Council, with which Council. Modernism, conclud­ "run around evangelizing, try­ to beat their adversary.