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The saints

St. John Eudes

A priest who lived in a barrel in a field during the plague, and preached the Heart of Jesus.

Feast: 19 August · 1601 to 1680 · Reformation and missions · Normandy, France

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Portrait of St. John Eudes in black, holding a heart with a cross and flames.

Unidentified painter, 1673. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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Normandy, 1627

John Eudes was a French priest when plague struck his region.1

He cared for the dying, and to avoid infecting his brothers he lived for a time in a large cask in a field.1

He went on to preach more than a hundred parish missions.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers him as an apostle of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

01St. John Eudes

The Hearts of Jesus and Mary

He wrote liturgical texts in honor of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, before the visions of Margaret Mary.1

He founded a community of sisters to care for women leaving prostitution.1

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Notes

How we know · 1 source for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint John Eudes”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) is in the public domain; we quote the New Advent edition. Texts of the Holy See are quoted briefly from vatican.va. Scripture: World English Bible, Catholic edition (public domain); Verse numbers are modern, with Douay-Rheims numbers in brackets where they differ. Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, credited under each image; full list on the photo credits page.

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