As part of the process of canonisation of Blessed Antoine Chevrier, two events took place on Thursday 17 June 2021 at the Prado Chapel in Lyon:
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- At 2.00 pm: Round-table discussion: «Becoming saints: a calling for everyone?», on the process of canonisation 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, Director of the Prado Women’s Institute,
o Father Gianni FESTA, a Dominican: postulator for the cause of Father Chevrier.
- At 2.00 pm: Round-table discussion: «Becoming saints: a calling for everyone?», on the process of canonisation of Blessed Antoine Chevrier, featuring:
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- At 3.15 pm: «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. Over the next few days, this video will also be available on the Prado’s official 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 17 June 2021, from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm:
VIDEO OF THE CELEBRATION on Thursday 17 June 2021, from 3.15 pm to 4.00 pm:
«Dear brothers and sisters, I invite you to return time and again to the magnificent figure of your founder, to reflect on his life, and to seek his intercession. The authentic spiritual experience which he lived so intensely – immense compassion for the poor, understanding and sharing in their sufferings, and at the same time a contemplation of the self-emptying of Christ, who made himself 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 the visit to Rome in 2018)
The blessing of the icon of Father Chevrier and the accompanying Novena is taking place in order to promote Father Chevrier’s «reputation for holiness» within the international Prado family and in the Church of Lyon.