2023-08-19 02:00:00
Concern for the clergy
After much prayer, reflection and consultation, Saint John Eudes left the Congregation of the Oratory in 1643. Experience taught him that the clergy needed to reform before the faithful and that the congregation could only achieve its end by founding seminaries. Then Juan decided to form an association of diocesan priests, whose main purpose would be the creation of seminaries to train a much more careful parish clergy.
The new association was founded on the day of the Annunciation in 1643, in Caen, under the name of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary. Its members, like those of the oratory, were diocesan priests who were not bound by any vow. The hallmark of the congregation was the Heart of Jesus, in which that of Mary was mystically included.
In 1650, while on mission, Fr. Eudes received the news that the Bishop of Bayeux had just approved the congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge, made up of the nuns who cared for repentant women of they fall. In 1653, Saint John founded a seminary in Lisieux, which was followed by another in Rouen in 1659.
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