Jacques-desired Laval Père Jacques-Désiré Laval (1803-1864) Jacques-Desired father Laval (1803-1864) Desired Jacques Laval, born it with Croth (, ), dead 9 with Sainte-Croix (Mauritius), and French missionary, considered as happy by. Synopsis 1 Biography 1.1 Childhood 1.2 Doctor of countryside 1.3 Priest of parish 1.4 Missionary 2 Beatification 3 Bibliography Biography Childhood Jacques-desired Laval was born in with Croth, small village of the valley of, not far fromAnet, whereas France was still upset by the events of and them . It was named Jacques like his father, owner of a farm and mayor of the village, and Was wished because his/her parents sincerely hoped a boy after the first three girls. After tests, more or less successful, first studies, initially in a school presbytérale under the control of his/her uncle Nicolas, priest of Tourville-the-Countryside, then with small seminar of Evreux, his/her father sent it to Stanislas college of , from where it left graduate arts, at age the 22 years and science the following year. It undertook studies of and supported successfully it one thesis on the rheumatoid arthritis. revolution of burst and them barricades drawn up in the capital will bring back the young doctor to Normandy. Bust of the Laval Father deposited with the church of Pinterville Doctor of countryside During four years, from September 1830 to April , Jacques-Desired Laval was a doctor with Saint-Andrew from the Eure, often showing a great charity, but a calumny campaign organized against him obliged to be fixed at , where a great turn in its life took place. Jacques Laval liked himself then in comfort and the luxury. It liked to parade in uniform, with the head of the national guard of its commune and was pointed out by the elegance of its clothes, the luxury of its pieces of furniture and its receptions. But this life considered to be easy and egoistic did not fill it. The conversion of Dr. Laval, tortured by the remorse, was slow but deep. A disappointment in love with a cousin, a fall of horse which could have been mortal were perhaps only coincidences! Jacques Laval announced then, with the great astonishment of much, his entry with the seminar of it . Four years later, it was priest in the vault of the seminar of of Paris. Priest of parish 8 January , the Laval father was named "serving" of a small parish of 485 inhabitants, located at the south of , Pinterville. There will remain two years there what enabled him to live its noviciate of future missionary: austerity of life, carries open to the poor, attention in the living conditions of the parishioners, permanence of the prayer. The Laval abbot then intended the call of a greater misery to be relieved. Mgr. Collar, appointed apostolic vicar ofMauritius, accepted its services for the apostolate of the Blacks recently freed from slavery. The Laval father entered company of Saint-C?ur of Marie founded by the Libermann Father. It left Pinterville forever it , arrived at on May 14 and embarked, the empty hands, on the "Tanjore" it 4 June . It would not re-examine any more Europe. Missionary Tombeau actuel du Père Laval, à Sainte-Croix Current tomb of the Laval Father, in Sainte-Croix After hundred days of crossing, the Laval father unloaded with Port-Louis in the greatest indifference. , it accepted the load of the Mission of the Blacks and started to learn it , was made a basic catechism and located among slaves, definitively freed by the authorities British it 1er April , the small group of those which it could form so that they become its assistances. The Laval father carried one rapiécée and travelled to back of. It lived withdrawn in a small wood house, in the court of presbytery to receive its "dear Noirs", amazed to get along called "Mister" or "Madam". It made even for them each Sunday, at midday a special mass. Each day, the Laval father visited them in their huts, at the hospital and the prison. It made build small schools of bush and centers of prayer through the country and, since sound , it took care of their correct operation. Destroyed for the majority by terrible it 8 March , these vaults were rebuilt at once with enthusiasm by the faithful ones. The father Laval, initially only then assisted by other missionaries, could cure and give upright, physically and morally a whole people which the rich enjoyed to regard as marginal. But the more successes increased, the more the opposition grew. The white called it "the large black animal" and the Laval father even had to ensure his instructions of the evening under the protection of two police officers. Once the aversion passed, the feelings of the white colonists will evolve little by little towards confidence, and for some to a deep admiration. 2 February , the Libermann father died in Paris. Its successor, the Schwindenhammer father, named the Laval father who had not made of noviciate and knew little about the rules of the religious life and, moreover, felt reluctant to write reports/ratios, provincial superior of the missions of Bourbon (island of ) and of Maurice. The Laval father will live this nomination badly. In May , it prevails in Maurice. The Laval father devoted himself to the extreme for the patients and dying them. It made some in the same way at the time of the epidemic of , it also very fatal in 1856. Patient at the end of his life and after being struck by attacks ofapoplexy, he died Friday 9 September . When next Sunday, at eleven hours of the morning, one closed his coffin, 20 000 people had ravelled in front of the body. There had been nobody to accomodate it with his arrival with Maurice, there were 40 000 of them to escort it with its last residence, with the foot of the martyrdom, in front of the church of Sainte-Croix. Beatification The Jacques-Desired Father Laval was béatifié by the pope it , in of . It was the first beatification of the Jean-Paul II, who placed his pontificate under the protection of this humble missionary. The pope invited the Christians of the whole world to take it for model: "That the example of the Laval Father encourages all those which, on the African continent and elsewhere, endeavour to build a fraternal world, free from racial prejudices! » , 150 000 people attended the ceremony of thanksgiving which took place with the monument of Marie, Reine of Peace, in Port-Louis, during whom the name of Jacques-Desired Laval was often evoked. , with the invitation of Sir , arrived to Maurice for three days an official visit and went to the tomb of the Father Laval, this modest priest who had devoted his life to poorest, with Sainte-Croix "where, it affirmed, I come myself to venerate the tomb of happy Laval which you like so much in Mauritius ". Today, the annual pilgrimage of Sainte-Croix gathers between 100 000 and 200 000 Mauritians. 12 000 pilgrims come to collect themselves on his tomb each week. Bibliography Benoit Smerecki, Jacques-desired Laval (1803-1864). Route of happy - Of its native Normandy in Mauritius, éd. Publibook, 2003.
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