Today is the feast day of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, a French priest who was the founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament and the women’s Congregation of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. He lived from 1811-1868. During the first phase of his ministry, he was called to a spirituality of reparation, but gradually moved toward a spirituality of Christ-centered love. He was canonized in 1962, one day after Vatican II’s first session ended (American Catholic.org).
From Catholic.org:
Born in LaMure, France, he worked at his father’s trade as cutler until eighteen when he went to the seminary at Grenoble and was ordained in 1834. He served as a parish priest for several years then joined the Marists and in 1845 became their provincial at Lyons. He established the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament whose nuns devoted themselves to perpetual adoration.
Saint Peter Julian Eymard: Overwhelmed with a love for the Blessed Sacrament.
