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2010 Bicentennial Newsletter, No 4 |
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Written by Fr. Jean Daniel Gulung, a.a.
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
Remembrance site of Father d’Alzon inaugurated at Nîmes 27 November 2009.
Those who preceded us manifested their veneration for Fr. d’Alzon by conserving not only his writings and his books, but so many things that move us. Do I dare to admit that I am touched by the chalice offered by his father, as I am as much by the things of ordinary life? Doesn’t this prove that those who transmitted them to us were convinced that this man was not an ordinary man and that it was important to conserve the things that one day could be proposed to future generations?
Thus, the table of the Elze farm at Le Vigan, marked by a cross, where
Fr. d’Alzon and the Oblate Sister who accompanied him sat with the two
cups by which they drank their milk, were piously conserved by the
family who gave them to the Orants of Le Vigan in 1980. I was amused by
the reaction of several visitors who opened the drawers filled with
clothes and clothing marked with the initials EA, since they remembered
that they had none of their parents’ clothes. To be sure, this will not
be sufficient to get to know Fr. d’Alzon, but if this site had not been
realized all of these things would still be hidden in attic or cellar
closets, or only God knows where… As Msgr Wattebled told me, when at
Nîmes and one says « d’Alzon », you first think of the school that
bears his name. The realization of this remembrance site of Father
d’Alzon has also the goal of having the people of Nîmes discover a
major figure about whom they know so little. During the two days of
open house, when the visitors went from one spot to another, we could
imagine the future pilgrims received by our Oblate Sisters and the
Assunptionists. When the time for his beatification arrives we shall not be taken unawares, the site is ready!
Fr. Jean Daniel Gulung, a.a.
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