Saint Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod, a Frenchman and contemporary of Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, was a bishop of Marseilles, France, and the founder of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Today, the Oblate Fathers are one of the ten biggest religious orders in the world, with around 3,000 priests serving globally. Their mission is derived from the motto the Saint gave them: “Evangelizare Pauperibus Misit Me. Pauperes Evangelizantur” — “He has sent me to evangelize the poor. The poor are evangelized.”
Learn more about the man that Saint John Paul II called “The Apostle to Our Times” on the American Oblates’ website.
