In 2010 the bicentennial of the death of Fr. Emmanuel d'Alzon, the founder of the Assumptionists, two Assumptionists, Fathers Jean-Paul Périer-Muzet, the general archivist at the time, and Jean-Daniel Gullung, the general treasurer, collaborated in putting together a large collection of the photos and images that exist of him.

The text has yet to be translated, but the photos and images need little translation!!! They can all be found at http://www.assomption.org/fr/mediatheque/cahiers-du-bicentenaire-1/le-pere-d-alzon-en-images.

We are reproducing some of them here to give our readers a taste of the collection. Good viewing!

Painting of d'Alzon by Mrs. Marie-Pauline Le Brun, fourteen years old.

As a young priest, Abbé d'Alzon, around 30 years old.

A painting done for St. Marie Eugénie when d'Alzon was around 40 years old.

D'Alzon the teacher around 1853 at the Collège de l'Assomption with his nephew Jean de Puységur.

same year, surrounded by students

A few years later, around 1860, after a series of serious health issues.

A bearded d'Alzon, after his trip to Turkey in 1863.

With some of his religious in 1879, the year before he died.

The last known photo taken the year he died, 1880.

PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF VENERABLE EMMANUEL D'ALZON

Lord Jesus Christ,
you called Emmanuel d'Alzon to the service of your kingdom.
So that the Church might recognize the holiness of Fr. d'Alzon,
grant us by his intercession
the favor we now ask (...mention here the favor requested).
You who live and reign
forever and ever. AMEN.