Saint Peter Julian Eymard Excerpt:OUR LADY OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENTBehold the new title given to Mary by the Very Reverend Pierre-Julien Eymard, Founder of the Society of the Most Blessed Sacrament.This admirable man was born at Mure, Isere, in 1811. After embracing the ecclesiastical state and exercising the sacred ministry for some time, he entered into the Society of Mary, where for seventeen years he afforded an example of all the religious virtues. But God destined him to be the Father of a new family. As soon as the divine will was clearly known to him, Père Eymard accepted unhesitatingly all the trouble and labor which the founding of such a Society would cost him, and to it he gave the name, Society of the Religious of the Most Blessed Sacrament. To glorify the Most Holy Eucharist, is its end. By what means? By solemn and perpetual Exposition of the August Sacrament. It has, also, an exterior apostolate, embracing all the works directly relating to this essential end.This holy institution commenced in Paris, in 1856, in an humble locality given provisionally by Archbishop Sibour. In 1862, Père Eymard, having already a sufficient number of disciples, opened a novitiate. On the 8th of May of the following year, His Holiness, Pius IX, after having heard the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, granted the Decree of Approbation to the said Society.The life of the pious Founder was not of long duration. But before his death God gave him the consolation of seeing his religious family consolidated and extended. On 1 August 1868, he died the death of the just, consumed with the love of Jesus in the Eucharist.Among the pious legacies which Père Eymard left to his religious family, there was one which today more especially claims our attention, since we are in the month of May, and that is the devotion to Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament.May 1, 1868, being at Saint-Maurice, a house of retreat which he had opened in a pleasant situation far from the noise of the city, and the turmoil of the world, Père Eymard began the pious exercises of the Month of Mary, and closed his burning exhortation with these words: “O let us honor Mary under the title, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament! Yes, let us say with confidence, let us say with love: Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Mother and Model of Adorers, pray for us who have recourse to thee!”Père Eymard was radiant, his words trembling with emotion, his heart over flowing with joy, for he had discharged a debt of gratitude to Mary, his Mother, to Mary who had given him Jesus in the Sacrament, who had sustained and encouraged him with maternal solicitude in the founding of his pious and edifying Society. Upon the point of bidding adieu to his children, and leaving them a powerful means of serving their Master better, he added to Mary’s diadem a jewel not less beautiful than glorious.Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament is the new title of a thing very old, says the Father.We have good reason to venerate all the mysteries of the life of the Mother of God. Contemplative souls have found an example in the life of Mary of Nazareth, as desolate hearts have done in Our Lady of Dolors. In all Mary’s actions there is a grace which sweetly attracts us to honor and imitate them, each according to his vocation.