Feast day: August 19
St. John Eudes
A French priest who preached missions across the countryside, founded a congregation to train good priests and a refuge for women leaving prostitution, and spread devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
He composed the first liturgical texts honoring the Sacred Heart, decades before the famous visions at Paray-le-Monial made the devotion universal.
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