Eugenie Smet

Eugenie Smet (1825 - 1871) in Marie religion of Providence, founder of the Auxiliatrices was born on March 25th 1825 in Lille, of a family enracinée in a long tradition of faith, this one being expressed through the piety of its time. However the 19th century was one time strongly marked by the devotion with the hearts of the Purgatoire. This devotion being often expressed by an insistence on the need for suffering and of expier in this world, to shorten the sufferings after death.

Its faith, its goals

Animated of a faith which moves the mountains and of a communicative love of the life, Eugenie Smet founds the Auxiliatrices Purgatory, for a universal mission: “ to go from the depths of the Purgatory until the last limits of the ground ”

In this spirit it invites Auxiliatrices to bind to a particular work and to be let stop by no border not even that of death.

Initiated with the spiritulaity ignatienne, since its education with the Sacred Heart of Lille, Eugenie Smet adopts the Rules and the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, on March 25th 1859, after three years of gropings and research.

Biography

1836-1843 : It is high with the Sacred Heart of Lille
1843-1853: It leads an intense apostolic life to Loos - lez-Lille
November 1853: She discovers her mission in the Church
1855: the Curé of Ars confirms it in its mission
January 19th, 1856: It arrives at Paris and founds the Institute of the Auxiliatrices hearts of the Purgatory with Barouillère on June 30th, 1956
1859: It adopts the Rules and the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus
1863: Foundation of the house of Nantes
August 4th, 1867: Call for the mission of China
1869: Foundation of the house of Brussels
February 7th, 1871: She dies in Paris, at the 45 years age
1957: She is béatifiée by Pie XII

Its mission

“ To help with any good whatever it is ”
To be with the service of the “more forsaken of this world and other ”.

Current communities

Villeneuve d' Ascq
Cergy
Paris (several localizations, of which the head office)
Champs-sur-Marne
Versailles
Clamart
Epinay-sur-Orge
Rheims
Marseilles
Heavy Cannes
Pau
and of many localizations in the world.

Quotations

“(.) the poor by inclining towards them the heart of the rich person via this small institute which is posed like a hyphen between the two extreme points of the social scale ”
Of Pie XII: “ That charity towards the suffering hearts is linked closely at Eugenie Smet with the most concrete apostolate, most active, most universal, here is without any doubt a covering feature of its spiritual aspect and the particular seal that God wanted to give him ”

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