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The Saint Who Made Peace With Revolutionaries, Pennilessness, and His Mother, by Dawn Beutner  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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A painting of St. Eugène de Mazenod in the axial apse chapel of La Major Cathedral, in Marseille, Francs, where his tomb is located. (Image: Finoskov / Wikipedia)

By  Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, May 21, 2026  

Dawn Beutner  is the editor of a new book All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini (Ignatius Press, 2025). She is also the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com and has been active in various pro-life ministries for more than thirty years.

 

Bringing the Good News of Christ’s love to everyone was exactly how Eugene de Mazenod wanted to spend his priestly life.

When he died on May 21, 1861, Charles-Eugène de Mazenod was mourned by French Catholics as a steadfast bishop, a zealous religious founder, and a humble and inspirational preacher. A century later, Pope Saint John Paul II named him a saint.

Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod—not to be confused with his father, Charles-Antoine, or his uncle, Charles-Fortuné—was born in 1782 into a family that could trace its noble lineage back for more than a century.1 But it was difficult to live up to the high standards of eighteenth-century French aristocracy. Or, rather, it was not cheap. To keep up appearances for the sake of the Mazenod name, the family had fallen deeply in debt. …

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