Peter Coudrin

Channel:

all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA

Subscribers:

1,890

Published on January 8, 2022 7:01:44 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya2-XzGBPpM

Duration: 3:58

19 views

0

Peter Coudrin, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1003025 / CC BY SA 3.0

#1768_births
#1837_deaths
#19th-century_French_Roman_Catholic_priests
#18th-century_French_Roman_Catholic_priests
#French_Roman_Catholic_missionaries
#Picpus_Fathers
#Founders_of_Catholic_religious_communities
#Roman_Catholic_missionaries_in_Hawaii
#Congregation_of_the_Sacred_Hearts_of_Jesus_and_Mary
Pierre Coudrin depicted in a stained-glass window of the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu Pierre Coudrin is a French Catholic priest who founded the Picpus Fathers,
a religious institute of the Catholic Church known for its missionary work in Hawaii, Africa, Europe, Central America and the Pacific Islands.
Coudrin was born on 1 March 1768, at Coussay-les-Bois, near Poitiers.
His parents were farmers.
Coudrin had an uncle, who was a parish priest in a neighboring village.
Pierre spent his vacations with him during the years of his primary education, and his uncle prepared him for first communion.
He completed his secondary studies in 1785 at Châtellerault, and at 17 years of age, entered the University of Poitiers.
He was only a deacon when the persecution, directed against the clergy, dispersed the students of the seminary of Poitiers, where he was being trained.
Having learned that Mgr de Bonal, Bishop of Clermont, was in Paris and would confer Holy Orders upon him, he set out for that city, and on 4 March 1792, was ordained priest in the Irish Seminary just as France was becoming embroiled in the Revolution.
The ordination took place in the library, because the revolutionaries had invaded the chapel in which they were actually holding their meetings.
After ordination he returned to Coursay, but the violence of the persecution soon compelled him to go into hiding.
Coudrin hid in an attic of the granary of the Chateau d'Usseau where he remained for six months.
He reported that, during this time, he awoke one evening surrounded by an apparition of priests, brothers ...