“ON JANUARY 25th, 2016, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate celebrated the 200th anniversary of our founding by St. Eugene de Mazenod. St. Eugene’s heart was touched by the plight of the spiritually and materially poor in southern France who were suffering from the ravages of the French revolution. He suffered deeply from seeing how God’s people were abandoned and he chose to become the servant priest of the poor.”