{"id":3242,"date":"2008-05-20T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/a-saint-on-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2014-02-08T23:02:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T22:02:48","slug":"a-saint-on-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/a-saint-on-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saint on Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/eymard.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eymard.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/eymard-thumb.gif\" width=\"183\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/ND%20du%20Laus.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ND%20du%20Laus.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/ND%20du%20Laus-thumb.JPG\" width=\"97\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"benoite1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/benoite1.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notre-Dame-du-Laus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I read an account of Saint Peter Julian Eymard&#8217;s pilgrimage to the shrine of Notre Dame du Laus (pronounced <em>Loh<\/em>) in 1865. The shrine, which now attracts some 120,000 pilgrims each year, was the scene of a Solemn Mass last May 4th during which His Excellency, Monseigneur Jean-Michel di Falco L\u00e9andri, bishop of the diocese of Gap, officially recognized the supernatural character of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Beno\u00eete Rencurel (1647\u20131718), a Dominican tertiary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saint Peter Julian Eymard Invokes Beno\u00eete Rencurel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter Julian went to Notre-Dame-du-Laus to obtain the healing of his sister, who was gravely ill. At Laus, the saint asked for blessed oil. Returning to his sister, who was suffering from incessant vomiting and perspiration, he knelt down at the foot of her bed, and said, &#8220;My sister, we are going to begin a novena.&#8221; Then he anointed her stomach with the oil. Making the Sign of the Cross, Saint Peter Julian invoked Beno\u00eete Rencurel, saying, &#8220;<em>Soeur Beno\u00eete<\/em> of Laus, intercede with the Blessed Virgin for me. That same evening his sister&#8217;s vomiting and perspiration ceased completely. From that moment she improved day by day until her health was completely restored. The following year Saint Peter Julian Eymard returned to Notre Dame du-Laus on a pilgrimage of thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caro Cardo Salutis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The physical elements of this brief account are striking: a pilgrimage to the site of an apparition of the Blessed Virgin, the use of blessed oil, recourse to a novena, the Sign of the Cross, the pious anointing, the invocation of Beno\u00eete Rencurel, and the pilgrimage of thanksgiving. It is all splendidly Catholic. Tertullian said it long ago: &#8220;The flesh is the hinge of salvation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre-Dame-du-Laus Yesterday I read an account of Saint Peter Julian Eymard&#8217;s pilgrimage to the shrine of Notre Dame du Laus (pronounced Loh) in 1865. The shrine, which now attracts some 120,000 pilgrims each year, was the scene of a Solemn Mass last May 4th during which His Excellency, Monseigneur Jean-Michel di Falco L\u00e9andri, bishop of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Qi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}