Jean-Bernard Rousseau
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Jean-Bernard Rousseau, FSC (22 March 1797 – 13 April 1867) was a French Catholic member of the De La Salle Brothers. He assumed the religious name Scubilion upon his profession and was dubbed the "Catechist of Slaves" due to his extensive decades-spanning work on Réunion Island.[1][2]
He was beatified in 1989 during the visit of Pope John Paul II to the island.
Life
Jean-Bernard Rousseau was born in
The parish priest oversaw his education but this stopped with the death of the priest on 19 April 1811. A new pastor oversaw the rest of his education from October 4, 1818, onwards.
In April 1833 he accepted an invitation to go to
He died on 13 April 1867 after a long illness in Sainte-Marie and his funeral was celebrated on 14 April in which hundreds of people attended to mourn him. He was buried in Sainte-Marie but his remains were transferred in 1939 to the house of the De La Salle Brothers in Saint-Denis.[3]
Beatification
The beatification process commenced in
These processes commenced despite the fact that the
Formal conclusion to the processes allowed for the postulation to compile the
The miracle required for his beatification was under evaluation in the diocese of its origin and was then sent to Roman officials for their investigation. The C.C.S. declared the process to have completed its work and ratified it in 1983. The pope approved it in 1987 and beatified Rousseau on the occasion of his visit to the island of Réunion on 2 May 1989.[citation needed]
The current postulator assigned to the cause is Rodolfo Cosimo Meoli.
References
- ^ a b c d "Bl. Brother Scubilionis". Catholic Online. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ a b c "Blessed Scubilion Rousseau". Saints SQPN. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "Blessed Jean-Bernard Rousseau (Brother Scubilion)". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 206.