History:

For a longtime the Town Hall was the only hospital in ISSOUDUN. The chaplaincy of this hospital was offered to the MSC shortly after they were established in ISSOUDUN.
Fr. PIPERON, Jules CHEVALIER's third companion, was chaplain from 1856 to 1863. The new hospital was built in 1865 and the former Town Hall then became the St ROCH Museum.

From the time of Fr. CHEVALIER

Issoudun was the most dechristianised town in the diocese. CHEVALIER arrived there saying "God has his plans for this unfortunate town."

Father CHEVALIER's Faith Journey.

« When God wants a work, obstacles become means for Him. »
(Jules CHEVALIER )

"Our love of neighbour should be tenderhearted and comapssionate. The Samaritan should be our model. Along the road he meets a wounded man, half dead, stripped, dying of hunger. He is stirred at the sight, and his heart touched with compassion (Lk 10:33). Let us not close our heart to pity, when along life's road we come across a person wounded by sorrow, bruised by ingratitude, calumny or sin, prostrate in the mud of a disorderly life, or a poor person lacking everything, or a needy family. Like the Samaritan, let us draw near to these unfortunate people, and do everything in our power to comfort them."
(Méditations II, 259)

How does this inspire us today?

Today, we say too easily: "There is nothing we can do, it is useless."
Are we not imitating that same insensitivity towards the wounded that we find in the Gospel?