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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
Born into French nobility in 1782, Eugene de Mazenod fled the French Revolution with his family in 1789. In 1798 in Naples, they were joined by his uncle, the future Bishop Fortuné de Mazenod . Returning to France in 1802, he entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice and was ordained in 1811. [8] Chapelle des Oblats (Aix-en-Provence)
He arrived at the end of the year with three missionaries and served as priest and secretary to the Bishop of Jaffna. On 6 June 1856, he was appointed coadjutor Vicar of the Apostolic of Jaffna and titular bishop of Olympus , and was consecrated as bishop on 17 August 1856 by Bishop Eugène de Mazenod in Montolivet , France.
After deciding to join the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, he began his novitiate at Notre-Dame-de-l'Osier in 1851, and spent several months at the Marseilles major seminary. He was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Marseille, Eugène de Mazenod, on February 15, 1852, and was sent to Galveston, Texas. [1] [2]
She received her First Communion on 22 December 1853 and later received the sacrament of Confirmation on 29 January 1854 from the Bishop of Marseilles, Eugène de Mazenod. [4] At the age of fifteen while still in school she gathered a small group of students and dubbed it the Oblates of Mary.
In 1842, Bishop Eugene de Mazenod sent Timon-David to Paris to the seminary of Saint Sulpice. At St. Sulpice Joseph would become an ultramontanist in reaction to the Gallicanism at the time. There he met Dom Guéranger , restorer of Solesmes Abbey , who would open to him the meaning and beauty of the liturgy.
In 1846, despite the misgivings of the superior in Canada, Eugène de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseille and founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate dispatched two priests to the vicariate. In 1850, Alexandre-Antonin Taché O.M.I. was named coadjutor bishop to Bishop Provencher.