Veneration
A few of the saints who have had a particular devotion to Our Lady of Laus include Saint Eugene de Mazenod (1782-1861), founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868), founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Servants. When Saint Peter Julian was eleven years old he made a sixty kilometer pilgrimage on foot in order to pray for nine days at the shire while preparing for this First Communion. Later he wrote, "That is where I first came to know and love Mary."
On May 5, 2008, Bishop Jean-Michel de Falco of Gap (the Archbishop of Laus) announced the Holy See's recognition of the apparitions as Our Lady of Laus, Refuge of Sinners.
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“Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he himself remained in the shadow as the source of light always does. But he who points the way into a new era is no less worthy of veneration than he who is the first to enter it; those who work invisibly have also accomplished a feat.”
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“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
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