A special gift for the Pope
Bishop Delville presents Pope Leo XIV with the book “Praying for 15 days with Blessed Eugénie Joubert: a catechist of fire”!
Oratorio “Ancora di Più”
Sacred oratorio based on Eugénie Joubert for solo voices (Asia Cannone), narrator (Fatima Lucarini), choir and orchestra Fideles et Amati (conductor: Tina Vasaturo) – Music and lyrics: Marcello Bronzetti
An exceptional moment on September 27, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of Catechists at the Basilica of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome!
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‘Praying for 15 days with Eugénie Joubert’ available in Rome
Basilica of St. John-Lateran! “Praying for 15 days with Blessed Eugénie Joubert” presented in the Catholic church of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope!
Mass on 17 August 2025 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
It has become a tradition!
Every year, the opening Mass of the pilgrimage of the Diocese of Liège to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is dedicated to Blessed Eugénie Joubert, who is buried in the Church of Saint Gilles in the Belgian diocese.
Praying for 15 days with Eugénie Joubert
Throughout her short life, Eugénie Joubert, a model catechist, joyfully spread the message of Christ, especially in the suburbs.
François Vayne, Vatican journalist and director of communications for the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Rome, wrote “Praying for 15 days with Blessed Eugénie Joubert: a catechist of fire,” published in French (ed. Nouvelle Cité) and translated into Italian (ed. Gribaudi editore).
“I want to smile every morning at my mother from heaven”
(Diary, Sister Eugénie Joubert)
It is in the Italian weekly magazine “Maria Con Te” of 2025/05/22, the first weekly magazine dedicated to Our Lady, that four pages are devoted to learning more about Blessed Eugénie Joubert, her life, and her legacy.
The magazine focuses on those who entrust themselves to Mary every day and on the places that celebrate Mary.
François Vayne, the author of the article, is passionate about Mary and Marian figures and knows Eugénie Joubert well. For him, she is a role model for today’s catechists.
A look back at the grave transfer ceremony :
A letter from Damien de Laminne
In a letter, Damien de Laminne, Lieutenant for Belgium of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, gives a faithful account of an emotional day on Sunday 30 June, when the ceremony to transfer the tomb of Blessed Eugénie took place.
‘To have carried her on my shoulders, to have felt the weight of her relics as a call to greater humility and abandonment (…) did not leave me indifferent’, we can read.
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Eugenie Joubert as a nun
Blessed Eugénie Joubert, of the Holy Family of the Sacred Heart, was born in Yssingeaux (Haute-Loire) on 11 February 1876; she died in Liège (Belgium) on 2 July 1904 where she is buried in a private Chapel in the Church of Saint-Gilles.
She was beatified in Rome by Pope John Paul II on 20 November 1994: “Sister Eugénie Joubert teaches us to live holiness every day by reminding us that this is our vocation. She is an example for every catechist“. (excerpt from homily, Saint John Paul II).
The Catholic Church celebrates her on 2 July.
Intercessory prayer
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Intercessory prayer
Those who receives graces can make them known to:
Blessed Eugénie Joubert loved to transmit the faith of the Church. Let us be catechists with her!
Eugenie Joubert as a Child
“Passionate about evangelising poor children from de-Christianised backgrounds… she excelled in this mission, and quickly touched the hearts of these children who were left to their own devices, barely schooled and rowdy.
They, the “untouchables”, let themselves be tamed by the one they called their “little sister”: they knew she loved them. They saw in her the embodiment of the faith she passed on to them.
(Extracts from the preface to the book “Eugénie Joubert, une force d’âme”)
Eugenie Joubert, young girl catechist
(her life was dedicated to the catechesis of the very young children)
Sister Eugénie Joubert studied Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Fathers of the Church. On several occasions, she followed the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, loving to place herself in the intimacy of the Holy Family.
Eugenie Joubert ill
She died at the age of 28 saying the name of Jesus several times, her lips on a crucifix.
