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Eugène de Mazenod, OMI (born Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod; 1 August 1782 – 21 May 1861) was a French aristocrat and Catholic bishop who founded the congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. When he was eight years old, Mazenod's family fled the French Revolution and left its considerable
Ordained by Eugène de Mazenod. [4] Edmund Peiris (1897–1989), Bishop of Chilaw, Sri Lanka; Albert Sanschagrin (1911–2009), Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada; Hubert O'Connor (1928–2007), Bishop of Prince George, Canada; Erwin Hecht (1933–2016), Bishop of Kimberley, South Africa
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) is a missionary religious congregation in the Catholic Church.It was founded on 25 January 1816 by Eugène de Mazenod, a French priest later recognized as a Catholic saint.
In response to this necessity, the people of Grace Park launched a fund–raising campaign. After two years, a new church was ready to be blessed by the Archbishop of Manila, Rev. Msgr. Gabriel Reyes. The church co-patron is St. Eugene de Mazenod and the feast of Our Lady of Grace is observed every first Sunday of May.
Churchville was founded in 1815 by Amaziah Church (1766-1831), [2] who built a gristmill on the Credit River in what was then Toronto Township, York County (Peel County was created from York County in 1851). [3] This small area surrounding the mill on the floodplain of the river valley was where the original settlement was focused.
Towards the end of 1846, Eugène de Mazenod, the founder of the O.M.I., granted the request of two Pacific Northwest bishops (Augustin-Magloire Blanchet of Walla Walla, Washington and Modeste Demers of Vancouver Island) to send Oblate missionaries from France to serve in their dioceses. Pandosy and 4 other men (one ordained priest, three ...
Joseph-Norbert Provencher (February 12, 1787 – June 7, 1853) was a Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba.He was the first Bishop of Saint Boniface and was an important figure in the history of the Franco-Manitoban community.
After the Bourbon Restoration in 1815, a new impetus was given to missionary work by the Abbé Forbin-Janson, who, with his friend the Abbé de Rauzan, founded the Missionaires de France, and by Charles de Mazenod, who founded the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, at Marseille, in 1815. In Germany parochial missions had been given sporadically ...