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Peter Julian Eymard was a French Catholic priest and a prominent figure in the 19th-century Church. He was born on February 4, 1811, in La Mure, France. Eymard initially pursued a career as a lawyer but felt a calling to the religious life and entered the seminary in 1831. He was ordained a priest in 1834.

Eymard became known for his deep devotion to the Eucharist and his desire to strengthen the spiritual life of Christians. In 1856, he founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious institute dedicated to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and spreading devotion to the Eucharist. Eymard's congregation had the mission of promoting Eucharistic worship, establishing perpetual adoration chapels, and inspiring priests and laypeople to embrace the centrality of the Eucharist in their spiritual lives.

He played a significant role in reviving and promoting the Forty Hours Devotion, an extended period of solemn exposition and adoration of the Eucharist. Eymard's writings and teachings emphasized the importance of the Eucharist as the source and summit of Christian life.

Peter Julian Eymard died on August 1, 1868, in La Mure, France. He was canonized as a saint by Pope John XXIII in 1962. Today, he is revered as the Patron Saint of Eucharistic adoration and recognized as a spiritual guide for those seeking a deeper relationship with Christ through the Eucharist.

The spirit of Eucharistic love will make you refer everything to the Holy Eucharist, for the Eucharist is the summary of all marvels. It is the permanent mystery in which we find all others. If you have this Eucharistic spirit, if your thoughts are tuned continually toward the Eucharist, the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament will never leave you. God is immense, the universe is filled with God's presence, but the Eucharistic soul prefers to search and find God where he is sacramentally. Just as the eagles assemble where the body is, so also Eucharistic souls are attracted instinctively, easily, and habitually to the Holy Eucharist. Therein is their happiness, their peace; there they find a supernatural knowledge of all things. That is why after holy Communion we often understand some things which before were incomprehensible to us. That is why some saints who were very ignorant spoke admirably of God.Put yourselves, then, dear sisters, in the holy Eucharist, and you will be in a center of light.

Peter Julian Eymard, to the Serv

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