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A 200th Birthday Celebration, April 15, 2010
The Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) are celebrating the 200th birthday of their Founder, Fr. Emmanuel d’Alzon this year. Fr. d’Alzon and St. Marie Eugenie were great friends who encouraged each other in the earliest years of their congregations. Six years after St. Marie Eugenie founded the Religious of the Assumption in Paris, he established the Assumptionists at Nimes in 1845. Prolific writers, they exchanged close to 4,000 letters throughout their long friendship.
At his death in 1880, Marie Eugenie (then 63) wrote: “I have made it a habit to see in people only what I shall see for all eternity. What I shall see eternally in Father d’Alzon is his love for Jesus Christ, his devotion to the Church, his zeal for souls.”
Please click here to see the Press Kit for his bicentennial.
For additional information please see:
Assumptionist U.S. Province website
Assumptionist Congregation website
