RUE DARIDAN (Where FR. CHEVALIER died)
   

History

This was originally the parish house that Fr. CHEVALIER gave to Mr. de BONNEVAL as a lodging for soldiers.
When Fr. CHEVALIER was expelled from his presbytery (21 January 1907), Mr. de BONNEVAL's carriage brought him to this house which then became the new presbytery until 1913 when Armand CHEVALIER, the parish priest of Issoudun at that time, bought the present presbytery at no. 13, rue Grande Narette.
Fr. CHEVALIER died here on the 21 October 1907. The house in rue Daridan provided accommodation for teachers at the school of St Cyr and the young girls of the parish also held their meetings here.
It was sold by Fr. Joseph HILAIRE when he was the parish priest of Issoudun.
The commemorative plaque was the initiative of Fr. Philippe SEVEAU, a missionary in Papua New Guinea.

From the time of Fr. CHEVALIER

- "He is the man of an idea and a heart. His is a mystical idea. Devotion to the Sacred Heart and the practical notion of founding Congregations." (J. De Belleville)
"I think I can claim that in all things I have sought only the glory of the Sacred Heart and the good of our little society and its members ".

Fr. CHEVALIER's Faith Journey.

(Speaking of his death)... "I await his hour in peace, full of confidence in the inexhaustible mercy of the Heart of Jesus." (Daily Readings: 20 October) (Speaking of the Eucharist) ... "It is a mysterious abyss where resides the source of all graces; it extends the incarnation of the Word in each of the members of his mystical body."

How does this inspire us today ?

Do we think of Fr. CHEVALIER as a saint? Why? How does his life challenge my own?