Jules Chevalier Anniversary, 117 Years

This year we have celebrated 200 years since the birth of Jules Chevalier, 1824.

We will celebrate on December 8 170 years of the foundation of the Society, 1854.

Today we remember the anniversary of Jules Chevalier’s death, 1907.

Fr Piperon’s account:

Towards midday a crisis seemed to indicate the end. Father Meyer then had the community assembled and with them recited the prayers for the dying. From this moment on prayers were said continually at the deathbed of our Father. At 3 o’clock, there was a fresh crisis, no less painful than what had preceded; but the infirmarian’s intervention helped him surmount it. This was the last of his sufferings. After that he remained for more than two hours in great calm, almost motionless, as if in a peaceful sleep. Then, like the flickering out of a flame, he fell peacefully asleep in the Lord. The clock struck 5:30  the evening Angelus was ringing in the parish.