Saint Antoine‑Marie Zaccaria : le feu de la réforme catholique (5 juillet)

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Découvrez l’histoire puissante de saint Antoine‑Marie Zaccaria (1502–1539), prêtre italien, fondateur des Barnabites, et réformateur de l’Église au XVIe siècle. Dans une Italie troublée, il prêcha la conversion du cœur, l’adoration du Saint‑Sacrement, et une vie de feu pour le Christ. Il meurt jeune, mais son œuvre brûle encore à travers le monde.  📿 Saint Antoine‑Marie Zaccaria, prie pour nous !

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00:00In troubled times, God always raises up reformers.

00:06It was in 16th-century Italy, shaken by moral decadence and religious tensions, that a fiery man emerged, Antoine-Marie Zacharia.

00:20Born in Cremona in 1502, he lost his father very young.

00:24His mother, a pious and educated woman, lovingly raised him in the Christian faith.

00:33Gifted and sensitive, Antoine began studying medicine.

00:39But deep down, another vocation already inhabits him.

00:44To care for souls even more than bodies.

00:49Ordained a priest at the age of 26, he settled in Milan, a city then plagued by moral laxity and clericalism.

01:01Antoine-Marie, driven by an inner fire, does not just preach.

01:08He wants to transform the church from within.

01:11In a few years, they create a new order.

01:16The regular clerics of Saint Paul, called the Barnabites from the name of the Milanese church where they settled.

01:24Their mission is to return to the pure gospel, train exemplary priests and rekindle faith in hearts.

01:32Antoine-Marie Zacharia innovates.

01:36He encourages adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, spiritual retreats, and public readings from Saint Paul.

01:45His zeal is such that some find him too radical.

01:50But the love of Christ drives him forward, tirelessly.

01:55He writes

01:57“If you want to progress, start by consuming yourself.”

02:03And that's what he does.

02:05His body is exhausted in the service of God and the poor.

02:09He died young, at thirty-six, in a good one hundred and thirty-nine,

02:15but leaves behind an immense body of work.

02:17Today, his disciples, the Barnabites, the Angelic Sisters and the Laity of Saint Paul,

02:26continue their mission on several continents.

02:30Canonized in 1897,

02:33Saint Anthony Mary Zacharias is a model of interior reform,

02:39of Eucharistic fervor and active charity.

02:44May his example inspire us

02:47in these times which are in such need of renewal,

02:52of truth and inner fire.

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