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IN ROMAN GAUL, PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
RELIGIONS BLENDED TOGETHER
IT IS SAID THAT SOME CHRISTIANS SACR
OXEN TO BAPTIZE NEW MEMBERS IN B
THESE WERE TIMES OF
CONFUSION AND IGNORANCE...
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOURTH-CENTURY,
IN LYON, CITY OF ROMAN GAUL, MANY
EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS TOOK PLACE.
THIS IS THE STORY OF ONE SUCH
EXTRAORDINARY EVENT. THIS IS THE
STORY OF ST. VIATOR.
ILLUSTRATED BY ANTONIO CARDOSO
AROUND THE YEAR 350 A SOLDIER NAMED MAGENTIUS
BEGAN TO STAND OUT AS A STRONG LEADER OF THE
ROMAN ARMIES...
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NY ADORED MAGENTIUS... YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL,
MAGENTIUS, WE BOW
DOWN TO YOU...
I AM POWERFUL,
YOU ARE RIGHT!
MAGNIFICE
LEADER, YOU
WORTHY..
RESTORE THE GOOF ROME TO THOLD PEDESTALS
RUMORS SPREAD THROUGHOUT GAUL
MAGENTIUS WAS GOING TO BE THE NE
EMPEROR OF ROME...
THE SOLDIERS GIVE
THEIR SUPPORT..
I KNOW THAT THIS MAN SPEAKS THE
TRUTH...ALL THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THIS
CITY MUST GIVE ME THE HONOR I DESERVE.
I WANT A BANQUET PREPARED TO HONOR
ME...MIGHTY MAGENTIUS!
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AT THE BANQUET IN HONOR OF MAGENTIUS...
EVERYONE DRANK TOO
WHAT DO YOU
WANT ?
WE WAYOU TO
EMPE
LONG LIVE
MAGENTIUS!
LONG LIVE EMPEROR
MAGENTIUS OF GAUL!
ROME WILL SEND ALL THEIRARMIES TO FIGHT AGAINST ME!
WILL YOU JOIN IN THE FIGHT?MAGENTIUS!
WE WILL FIGHT,
THE CROWD RESPONDED TO MAGENTIUS...
THE CROWD CHEERED...
ALL PRAISED MAGENTIUS...
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PERHAPS YOUNG VIATOR WATCHED THE
PAGAN SOLDIERS ENTER LYON...MAYBE VIATOR LISTENED TO
THE PREACHING OF BISHOP
VERSIMO OF LYON... NEVER ABATHE CHRIS
FAITH
WE SERVE THE LIVING GOD, NOT
IDOLS! VIOLENCE IS NOT THE
WAY OF JESUS...
MY ARMY HAS DESE
ME...COWARDS...I AM
WITH NO HOPE
SUPPORT FOR MAGENTIUS
BEGAN TO CRUMBLE...
MAGENTIUS TOOK HIS OWN LIFE IN AN ACT OF CONF
AND RAGE...FEELING DESERTED
AND HOPELESS...
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IN TRUTH, BISHOP JUST WAS A LOVING AND ABLE PRIEST...
ONE DAY, THE MOTHER OF VIATOR
PRESENTED HER SON TO THE BISHOP...
PLEASE INSTRUCT
MY SON.
WITH THE APPROVAL OF BISHOP JUST, VIATOR
DEDICATED HIS TIME TO STUDYING THE SCRIPTUR
WE ALL KNOW THAT
CHURCH IS OUR TEMP
OUR HOME, OUR SCHO
YOUNG VIATOR...COME TO
THE CATHEDRAL...YOU
CAN PREPARE TO BE A
PRIEST...
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NE DAY...
VIATOR, YOU AREREADY TO BE A
LECTOR ANDCATECHIST.
THANK YOU,
SIR!
VIATOR READ THE GOSPEL AND TAUGHT THE PEOP
ABOUT GODS LOVE AND TRUTH
LATER...YES,
BISHOP.
YOU SPEAK
WELL.
THIS DESIRE TO SHARE THE GOOD
NEWS OF JESUS WITH EVERYONE I
MEET MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE! TO KNOW
CHRIST AND SHARE HIS MESSAGE...
VIATOR, WE NEED
TO TEACH OTHERS
OUR FAITH...
MAGENTIUS CONFUSED THE PEOPL
MAKING THEM WORSHIP IDOLS. W
NEED TO INSTRUCT THEM SO THE
KNOW JESUS...
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VIATOR, YOU STAY
HERE AND TAKE CARE
OF THE FAITHFUL.
IN THE YEAR 381, BISHOP JUST LEFT
FOR THE COUNCIL OF AQUILEIA...
WHEN BISHOP JUST RETUR
IMPORTANT EVENTS BEGAN
TRANSPIRE IN LYON...
BISHOP JUST, HERE ARETHE SACRED BOOKS I
COPIED.
AT FIRST THE DAYS WERE FILLED WITH
FURTHER STUDY BETWEEN THE BISHOP AND
VIATOR...
NICE WORK,
VIATOR!
THANK YOU...W
IS THAT NOISE
THE STREET
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DDENLY, LYON FILLED WITH
SHOUTS AND CONFUSION
WHAT IS
HAPPENING?HES POSSESSED
BY SATAN!
NO ONE CAN
STOP HIM!
HELL KILL YOU IF YOU
DONT RUN!
RUCK MAD, A MAN WAS ATTACKING ALL WHO
PASSED NEAR HIM WITH A SWORD... CUT OFF HIS
ESCAPE ROUTES!
THE TOWNSPEOPLE
PULLED TOGETHER AND
ORGANIZED A TRAP...
???
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THE MAN WAS SKILLFUL, DISARMING THOSE WHO
TRIED TO RESTRAIN HIM...
HE BOLDLY BROKE THROUGH THE T
IN DANGER, THE MANREGAINED HIS REASON... WHAT HI DON
THEY WILL KILL ME IF I DO
NOT FIND SANCTUARY IN THE
CHURCH OF MACCABEES!
IN THOSE TIMES, CHURCHES WER
ZONES FOR THOSE FACING DANG
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THIS TIME, THE CROWD WAS FRANTIC WITH RAGE...EXPEL THAT MAN
FROM THE CHURCH!
WELL BURN THE
CHURCH DOWN!RESPECT GO
SANCTUAR
BISHOP JUST ARRIVED AT THE CHURUCH TO
CALM THE ANGRY MOB...
HONORABLE BISHOP JUST, IT IS IN THE
INTEREST OF YOUR CHURCH THAT YOU
SHOULD SEND OUT THAT DEMON-
POSSESSED FUGITIVE TO FACE OUR
JUSTICE...
DEAR FRIENDS, YOUR
VERSION OF JUSTICE WILL
KILL THIS MAN. THE CHURCH
OFFERS SANCTUARY...
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WE WILL NOT KILL HIM.
WE WILL ESCOURT HIM
TO JAIL.
YOU PROMISE
TO RESPECT
THIS MAN?
I GIVE YOU MY WORD,
BISHOP JUST!
WE TRUST YOUR WORD.
I PLACE HIS LIFE INTO
YOUR HANDS...
WHEN THE MAN EXITED THE CHURCH, THE
ANGRY MOB POUNCED ON HIM...
AS BISHOP JUST LOOKED ON, THE
MOB KILLED THE MAN...O GOD, THIS MAN
MURDER IS MY FAU
TRUSTED MAN RAT
THAN YOU!!!
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SHOP JUST GREW OLD, UNABLE TO
FIND FORGIVENESS...
BISHOP JUST, I DONT
UNDERSTAND...YOUVE
DONE NOTHING
WRONG.
IM A DISGRACED BISHOP,
UNFIT TO CONTINUE. IVE
DECIDED TO GO INTO THE
DESERT AS PENANCE FOR THE
REMAINDER OF MY LIFE!
ILL LIVE OUT MY LIFE
IN A MONASTERY,
SEEKING GODS MERCY
FOR MY ERROR!
MY CHILD,
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WITHOUT YOU, BISHOP, I AM
LOST. I WILL GO WITH YOU
TO SEEK OUT GODS PERFECT
WILL IN LIFE. I WILL NEVER
DEPART FROM YOUR SIDE...
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BISHOP JUST SLIPPED OUT IN THE NIGHT
WHILE EVERYONE WAS SLEEPING...
HE WENT ALONE TOWARD THE PO
MARSEILLE
ILL JOURNE
THE DESER
IN VAIN, VIATOR SEARCHED FOR
BISHOP JUST IN THE CATHEDRAL...HES GONE...I CAN
STILL CATCH HIM
IF I GO BY BOAT...
KNAPSACK IN HAND, VIATOR REACHED
THE RODAN RIVER...
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AT THIS SPEED I WILL ARRIVE IN
MARSEILLE BEFORE BISHOP JUST.
VIATOR WAS AROUND
20 YEARS OF AGE AND
DETERMINDED TO
SEEK GOD IN THE
DESERT...
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BISHOP JUST AGREED...
YOU MAY COME
WITH ME TO THE
DESERT...
MAY WE LIVE FOR THEDAY WHEN WE CAN
RETURN TO LYON...
YES, UNTIL TH
WILL SEEK G
FORGIVENE
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MANY DAYS LATER, THE BOAT REACHED ALEXANDRIA, E
IT WILL BE
BETTER TO LIVE
FAR FROM LYON...
IN ROUTE TO EGYPT...
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NCE IN EGYPT, THEY SET OUT ON FOOT
FOR THE DESERTS OF THEBAID ...
WE WILL EXPLORE THE
MONASTERIES NEAR KELLIA,
NITRIA AND SCETIS...
WHICH IS BEST?ITS HARD
TO SAY...
THE DISCIPLES OFPACHOME LIVE IN
TABENNISI...
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HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT IN NITRIA IS
E COMMUNITY FOLLOWING THEIR LEADER,
THE YOUNG MACARIUS...
WAY OF LIFE...
SOME MILES FROM HERE IS SCETIS,
THE PEARL OF THE DESERT. IT IS
THE MOST DEMANDING
LETS GO
THERE!
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WE MUST MOVE
SILENTLY TO AVOI
AN ATTACK.
THEY DEPARTED FOR SCETIS ON A BOAT MADE OF BALSA,
WATCHING FOR DANGEROUS CROCODILES...
THEY JOINED A CARAVAN DEPARTING
FOR THE DELTA NILE...HOW DO WE REACH
SCETIS?
THE ONLY WAY
BOAT AND I
DANGEROU
THE RIVER IS INFESTED
WITH CROCODILES! YOU
MUST GO BY BOAT.
NOTHING STOOD IN THEIR
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THE NIGHT STARS
WILL GUIDE OUR
WAY...
WILL THEY LEAD
US TO SCETIS?
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HOURS LATER...
THERE IS THE
MONASTERY!
A SIGN ON THE FRONT DOOR
LT ALLMAYENTERNONEMAYEXIT.
STAY CALM WHEN
YOU WALK BY.
THEY OBEYED THESE WISE WORDS...
ONCE THROUGH THE CROCODIL
THEY BEGAN THE LONG WALK
THROUGH THE EGYPTIAN DESER
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OUR LIVES ARE IN
GODS HANDS NOW.
ARE YOU READY?
YES! WE WILL ABANDO
OUR WILL AND SER
GOD IN HUMILITY
A MONK APPEARED... IF YOU WISH TO ENTER THE
COMMUNITY, YOU MUST FIRST GR
THE WAY IN WHICH WE ALL LIV
ONE WEEK CAME AND WENT, THE
DOORS OF THE MONASTERY
REMAINED CLOSED...
YOU CANT ENTER THIS
PLACE UNTIL YOU ARE ABLE
TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE
ABLE TO HANDLE OUR WAY
OF LIFE.
DRINK THIS
FROM OUR
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ATOR AND BISHOP JUST BEGAN
THEIR NOVICIATE AS HERMITS,
LIVING IN NEARBY CELLS...
YOUR DEDICATION IS
OBVIOUS... WELL HELP
YOU FIND PERFECTION.
COME IN!
ALLY...
VIATORS HEAD WAS SHAVED,
SYMBOLIZING HIS LIFE AS A MONK...
THE ABBOT WAS MACARIUS THE EGYPTIAN, FOUNDER OF
THE MONASTERY AND MASTER OF HIGHEST EXPRESSIONS
OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY...
LEAVE YOUR PRIDE AN
RESISTANCE
OUTSIDE...OBEDIENCE
WHAT MATTERS HERE
...HE WORE A MONKS HA
VIATOR DISCOVERED A N
LIFE IN THE DESERT
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AWAITING THEM WAS A TABLE WITH
SOUP...SOMETIMES NOTHING MORE THAN
BREAD AND WATER...NOTHING ELSE!
A MONK NAMED EVAGRIUS STOOD,
APPEARING RATHER THIRSTY...ABBOT
MACARIUS,
MAY I ASK A
FAVOR...
PLEASE TELL ME W
YOU NEED, EVAGRI
ABBOT MACARIUS
DREW NEAR...
MAY I DRINK SOME
WATER BEFORE THE
OTHER MONKS?
ARE YOU THIRSTY
DEAR BROTHER?
GO OUTSIDEAND FIND SOMESHADE...
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MACARIUS WAS SO RIGOROUSTHAT HE TOLERATED NO SIGN OF
DISSENT OR RESIGNATION...
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TER, AT THE DOOR OF THE REFECTORY,
A MONK ANNOUNCED...
...WITH YOUR
PERMISSION, ABBOT
...THREE PILGRIMS FROM GAUASKING REFUGE IN THE
MONASTERY...
FATHER MACARIUS, WE COME FROM
LYON, DRAWN HERE BY THE FAME OF
THIS SACRED MONASTERY!
BOT FATHER...WE WISH TO LIVE
IN THE DESERT, LIKE YOU, TOPURIFY OUR SOULS OF ALL
WORLDLINESS...
WE SHALL SPEAK OF ALL
THESE MATTERS AFTER MONKS RETURN TO THE
DUTIES...
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AFTER THE MEAL, THE MONKS FILED OUTOF THE REFECTORY IN SILENCE...
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THE PILGRIMS PASSED BISHOP JUST...
FATHER JUST!ARE YOU HERE?
HUH? YOUKNOW HIM?
HE IS BISHOP JUST OF LYMAN OF VIRTUE AND HUMI
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HOW IS IT THAT KEPT A
SECRET FROM US? YOU ARE A
BISHOP?
I CAN EXPL...
RIGHT UNDER OUR VERY NOSES,
BROTHERS, A LIVING EXAMPLE OF
HUMILITY...
THIS MONK IS NONE OTHAN VIATOR, THE LEC
FROM LYONS CATHEDRA
TAUGHT MY NIECES A
NEPHEW...
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IATOR, WHY DID YOU KEEPQUIET ALL THIS TIME?
HUMILITY ISTHE WAY OF
JESUS...
THE EXAMPLE OF THIS NOBLEDISCIPLE SERVES TO SHOW USHOW TO LIVE. HUMILITY IS THEWAY OF JESUS!
BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE, THE HOLINESS
OF BISHOP JUST AND VIATOR WAS MADE
KNOWN TO THE WORLD...
...THE NEWS REACHED
YON...BISHOP JUST WAS LIVINGIN THE DESERT!
R BISHOPS A HOLY
MAN!
HE IS AN EXAMPLE
OF HOLINESS!
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BISHOP JUSTIS ALIVE!
AND NOW HE CANRETURN TO LEAD
LYON!
ALL IN LYON CELEBRATED...
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BRING VIATOR TOO! I WANT
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
JESUS!
FRIENDS, I WILL SEEKOUT OUR AGED BISHOP
AND YOUNG VIATOR.
LATER, A PRIEST NAMED ANTIOCHUS
SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE...
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ILL TELL THEM OF OUR JOY
AND HOPE FOR THEIR QUICKRETURN TO LYON.
BRING THEMBACK!
MAY BISHOP JUST ANDVIATOR RETURN TO LYON!
LONG LIVE OUR
BISHOP ANDVIATOR! WITH GOD AS M
WITNESS, I WILL DI CAN TO BRING T
BACK. BISHOP JUSTMY TEACHER AN
VIATOR MY FRIEN
BEFORE DEPARTING
EGYPT, ANTIOCHUS S
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THIS MOMENT, BISHOP
ST HAD A REVELATION...
OH!
MY STUDENT ANTIOCHUS
IS ON HIS WAY...
Y AFTER DAY, HE ANNOUNCED
ANTIOCHUS PROGRESS...ANTIOCHUS HAS
BOARDED A BOAT...
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YOU SEE
HIM?
YES, HIS BOAT
NOW NEARINALEXANDRIA
SHOP JUST SEEMED TO FOLLOW ANTIOCHUS
EVERY STEP IN THE JOURNEY...
TODAY HE IS CROSSING THEDESERT ON A CAMEL. HE IS INA CARAVAN OF TRADERS...
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HE WILL ENTER THISMONASTERY IN THREE
DAYS!
AGAIN, BISHOP JUST PROVED CORRECT
AND TEACHER AND STUDENT MET...
I BEG YOU...RETURN TO
LYON!
NO, ANTIOCHUS, MY FRIEND,LEAVING HERE WOULD MEANTHE END OF OUR JOURNEY
TOWARD HOLINESS. WE ARESTAYING HERE.
GOD HAS BROUGHT US TO TH
PLACE AND WE CANT JUS
WALK AWAY...
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ABBOT MACARIUS SPOKE LOVINGLY
TO ANTIOCHUS...THEY ARE RIGHT AND
YOU CAN SEE THIS... WHY DONT YOU LIVE WITH U
WE ALWAYS WELCOME NEW
BROTHERS!
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The Clerics of St. Viator was founded in Vourles, France in the 19th Century during the y
following the French Revolution. It was a time of political upheaval and social unrest.Christian education, especially in the rural areas, was woefully neglected. It was within t
context that Fr. Louis Querbes (1793-1859) founded the congregation. Realizing the need
provide education for youth, Fr. Querbes vision was to send religious brothers and lay catechists
deep faith and competent learning to parish schools in the countryside. In addition, these men
assisted country pastors in their parishes. Episcopal approval of the congregation for vowed memb
only was granted on Nov. 3, 1831 followed by papal approval on Sept. 21, 1838. Canonical regulat
prevented the inclusion of the lay catechists by Rome.
In 1865, three Viatorians from the recently established Province of Canada implanted the vision o
Querbes on U.S. soil in Bourbonnais, Illinois, 40 miles south of Chicago. On Aug. 2, 1882, theProvince of Chicago was established.
In 1978, the congregation gave new life to the lay catechists that Fr. Querbes had imagined and
accepted lay men and women associates who would commit themselves to participate in the charithe congregation. In 1999, the first associates of the Province of Chicago were welcomed.
About the Clerics of St. Viator
Father Louis Joseph Querbes (1793-1859)
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nstitutions bearing the name of St. Viator in the Province of Chicago:
St. Viator Parish, Chicago, Illinois
Saint Viator High School, Arlington Heights, Illinois
St. Viator Catholic Community, Las Vegas, Nevada
Colegio San Viator, Bogat, Colombia
Chunox St. Viator Vocational High School, Chunox, Belize
The Clerics of St. Viator also serve in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, France, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, I
Coast, Japan, Peru, Spain and Taiwan.
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