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St. Peter Julian Eymard

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Born in La Mure, in eastern France , where shortly before (1799) had spent the Pope Pius VI prisoner - executive Board of the French republican government since 1795 - giving blessings , and shortly after ( 1815) also passed Napoleon, escaped from the island of Elba, with a triumphant war songs . Peter was the son of a ruined farmer who changed the job of sharpening the street - something one must live -and remarried woman with good people who gave Peter born between siblings. The family does not provide it to perform their religious vocation think they are and are not poor enough for many outlays , which is impossible without the help that the child should report to the family nest egg and say you can also please God without look for extreme situations. Pedro he is stubborn in his desire. A hidden alternates the job of sharpening with occult studies .Fr. Guibert , future Cardinal of Paris, now just a young priest , "has passed through the village where Peter has eighteen years an...