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The saints

St. Peter Julian Eymard

A French priest who founded an order for one purpose: adoring Jesus in the Eucharist.

Feast: 2 August · 1811 to 1868 · The modern era · La Mure and Paris, France

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Black-and-white photograph of St. Peter Julian Eymard, gray-haired, in a priest’s cassock.

Unknown author, 1868. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

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Paris, 1856

Peter Julian was a poor boy from the French Alps who became a priest and then a Marist.1

He fell deeply in love with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.1

In 1856 he founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, devoted to adoration.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. The Church remembers him as the Apostle of the Eucharist.

01St. Peter Julian Eymard

Apostle of the Eucharist

He worked to bring lapsed Catholics and poor workers back to the sacraments, and encouraged frequent Communion.1

Live it this week

Visit Jesus in the tabernacle

Peter Julian lived for adoration. Stop into a church this week, even for five minutes on the way home, kneel in front of the tabernacle and talk to Jesus.

Notes

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

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