Pierre Bienvenu Noailles, Founder of the Holy Family of Bordeaux died on 8 February 1861. Here is a testimony from one of his contemporaries:
HE LIVES FOREVER!
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Pierre Bienvenu Noailles, Founder of the Holy Family of Bordeaux died on 8 February 1861. Here is a testimony from one of his contemporaries:
“... Called to fulfil his ecclesiastical mission, his intuition told him that it was necesssary to start useful public and charitable works that religious souls, under various forms and by different means, would wish to undertake. We know today that forty years of priestly ministry, the insights of an enlightened intelligence and the indefatigable zeal of a generous heart given to doing good, sufficed for the realisation of Fr. Noailles’s unique ambition ...”
“It was impossible to approach Fr. Noailles without admiring his humble simplicity, his total self-forgetfulness, his solicitude born of an unchanging goodness and, especially, the unfailing friendly welcome of his open and affectionate heart... . Blessed be the memory of those who love God!
It is an act of justice for them and a consolation for all who ardently desired to make others happy and better by their love.”
(Article published in The Friend of Religion, sub-titled Universal Political and Literary Journal of Paris, 1861)