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Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.

^ a b 'Geographic code 79005 in the official Répertoire des municipalités'.^ 'Reference number 44882 in Banque de noms de lieux du Québec'.The cause for her beatification, suspended in 1913, was reopened by Pope John Paul II in 1981.

Nearly two decades later, Fr Tenaillon became the first postulator of the cause for Eymard’s beatification.īenoite Rencurel was proclaimed Venerable by Pope Pius IX in 1872. After you arrive there, pray the litanies of the Blessed Virgin behind the altar for me . . . It’s the most beautiful and holiest place of pilgrimage in the world after Notre Dame de Loretto. In a letter to a travelling member of his Congregation, Fr Edmund Tenaillon SSS, in July 1867, Eymard reflected on the virtues of travel as ‘a good teacher’ and he noted the old maxim that ‘pilgrimages are a help to holiness’. Towards the end of his life, Eymard recognised that Mary had intervened at critical stages in his life: ‘It is the Blessed Virgin that has led me to Our Lord, to weekly Sunday Communion through the “Laus” at 12, from the Society of Mary to that of the Blessed Sacrament.’ Ĭhapelle du Précieux Sang (Chapel of the Precious Blood), Shrine of Notre-Dame du Laus. And later, on, Eymard placed the first drafts of his Constitutions (for the Blessed Sacrament Congregation) on the altar at Laus. Eymard journeyed to Laus in 1829, on the eve of joining de Mazenod’s Oblates as a novice. Touche urged Eymard to receive communion each week. Here, he met Fr Jean-Joseph Touche (one of de Mazenod’s missionary priests) who became a friend and mentor. As a 13-year-old, he made a second pilgrimage of sixty kilometres from La Mure to Laus. It was the first of many pilgrimages that punctuated Eymard’s life. Shortly before making his first communion in 1823 (aged 12), he made a pilgrimage to Laus and declared his love of Mary. Eymard recognised the significance of Laus from an early age. Between 18, the shrine at Laus was under the pastoral care of St Eugene de Mazenod’s Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Notre dame du.laus wuebec google earthview