As part of the canonization process for Blessed Antoine Chevrier, two events took place on Thursday, June 17, 2021, at the Prado Chapel in Lyon:
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- At 2:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion: «Becoming Saints: A Calling for Everyone?», on the canonization process of Blessed Antoine Chevrier, featuring:
o Bishop Olivier de GERMAY, Archbishop of Lyon,
o Sister Marie-Jo BARRIER, Mother Superior of the Sisters of the Prado,
o Pilar QUERALT CAPDEVILA, executive director of the Prado Women's Institute,
o Father Gianni FESTA, Dominican: postulator for the cause of Father Chevrier.
- At 2:00 p.m.: Roundtable discussion: «Becoming Saints: A Calling for Everyone?», on the canonization process of Blessed Antoine Chevrier, featuring:
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- At 3:15 p.m.: «Everyone’s eyes were fixed on him» : Reception ceremony—blessing of the icon of Blessed Antoine Chevrier, founder of the Prado—presided over by Archbishop Olivier de Germay of Lyon.
Thank you to the Lyon Diocesan Office for the video recording of this event which we are sharing with you below. In the coming days, this video will also be available on the Prado General website with translations into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Arabic: the Prado has a presence in 46 countries around the world.
VIDEO OF THE CELEBRATION on Thursday, June 17, 2021, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.:
VIDEO OF THE CELEBRATION on Thursday, June 17, 2021, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.:
«Dear brothers and sisters, I invite you to return again and again to the magnificent figure of your founder, to meditate on his life, and to ask for his intercession. The authentic spiritual experience he lived so intensely—an immense compassion for the poor, an understanding and sharing of their sufferings, and at the same time a contemplation of the self-emptying of Christ, who became one of them—was the source of his apostolic zeal. It will be the source of your missionary zeal.» (Pope Francis on the occasion of their visit to Rome in 2018)
The blessing of Father Chevrier’s icon and the accompanying novena is being held to promote Father Chevrier’s «reputation for holiness» within the international Prado family and in the Church of Lyon.