In All Things the Will of God: Saint John Eudes Through His Letters

St. John Eudes Center, 1994-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1994 first edition St. John Eudes Center (Buffalo, New York), 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches tall paperbound, illustrated with black-and-white engravings, 215 pp. Minor to moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, with slight creasing to the lower tip and a bit of 'cover curl' to the fore edge of the front cover. Small marginal notation and check marks on two pages in the first chapter. Small notation to blank rear free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce issue. OCLC (No. 48914755) locates only three copies at institutions worldwide - at the Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, the Duquesne University Library in Pittsburgh and Bibliotheque de l?Universite Laval in Quebec. ~MM~ [1.0P] The letters of Saint John Eudes, translated from the French by Louis Levesque. Eudes (1601-1680) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Eudists and the Order of Our Lady of Charity. He was also a professed member from the Oratory of Jesus and was the author of the proper for the Mass and Divine Office of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin. Eudes was an ardent proponent of the Sacred Hearts and dedicated himself to its promotion and celebration; the Masses he compiled for both Sacred Hearts were later said for the first time both in his lifetime. He preached missions across France including Paris and Versailles while becoming known as a popular evangelist as well as a sought-out confessor and preacher. Father Eudes was also a prolific writer and wrote on the Sacred Hearts while also condemning the Jansenists in favour of full support for the pope. Eudes was canonized as a saint in 1925 and there is a current push to have him named as a Doctor of the Church.