ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 21st of May WELCOME! SAINT EUGENE DE MAZENOD, BISHOP Bishop of Marseilles, and founder of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, born at Aix, in Provence, August 1782; died at Marseilles May 21, 1861. A PIOUS DISPOSITION De Mazenod was the offspring of a noble family of southern France, and even in his tender years he showed unmistakable evidence of a pious disposition and a high and independent spirit. Sharing the fate of most French noblemen at the time of the Revolution, he passed some years as an exile in Italy, after which he studied for the priesthood, though he was the last representative of his family. HE BECAME A PRIEST On December 21, 1811, he was ordained priest at Amiens, whither he had gone to escape receiving orders at the hands of Cardinal Maury, who was then governing the archdiocese of Paris against the wishes of the pope. After some years of ecclesiastical labours at Aix, the yo...