SAINTS & ART: St. John Eudes was a devout priest who actively tried to make people better people.
This French priest was born in 1601 and died in 1680. So why do we remember him today?
The most obvious reason is: he is a saint (canonized in 1925). Is that special? Well, yes. It is, after all, the reason we are alive. It is the sign of a life that was a success – because if you are not a saint, i.e., not in heaven, your life was a failure.
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