Meet St. Peter Julian Eymard, Apostle of the Eucharist

Meet St. Peter Julian Eymard, Apostle of the Eucharist

Left: Auguste Rodin’s sculpture of St. Peter Julian Eymard. Right: Auguste Rodin works on the sculpture in 1863. SAINTS & ART: His deep devotion to the Blessed Sacrament led to the founding of a new congregation — and a revival of Eucharistic adoration around the world.

Saints Eusebius of Vercelli and Peter Julian Eymard - Catholic Insight

The Church commemorates two pastors today, separated by a millennium and a half: The fourth-century Eusebius of Vercelli (+371), the first bishop we know of in northern Italy, who has gone down in history as one of the great foes of the insidious heresy of Arianism, which taught that Christ was not truly God. Eusebius – whose name means ‘good piety’ – suffered much for the truth, including painful and lonely exiles, and at one point even being d…