In 1920, Father Eust\u00e1quio took over the work in the glaziers' colony in Maassluis, Netherlands, formed by about 700 Belgians who had fled the First World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was appointed religious assistant to the workers of a glass factory who had moved from Belgium to Holland because of the war. Father Eust\u00e1quio ended up occupying this position because he was fluent in French, which allowed him to communicate with those Belgian workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because of this work, the Dutch priest was decorated by King Albert I of Belgium for the religious assistance he provided. He managed to convert several workers who lived in the area, and to do so he had to be very forceful against the vice of drunkenness and other errors that those workers maintained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one of the testimonies given to the Tribunal for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Father Eust\u00e1quio, Father Gil speaks about the Blessed's dedication to the change of location, beginning with his own personal transformation: Em 1920, Padre Eust\u00e1quio assumiu os trabalhos na col\u00f4nia de vidraceiros em Maassluis, Holanda, formada por cerca de 700 belgas que fugiram da primeira guerra mundial. Ele foi nomeado, assistente religioso junto ao operariado de uma f\u00e1brica de vidros que se havia transferido da B\u00e9lgica para a Holanda, por causa da guerra. Padre Eust\u00e1quio acabou ocupando este cargo por dominar o idioma franc\u00eas com o qual podia atuar entre aqueles oper\u00e1rios belgas. Por causa desse trabalho, o padre holand\u00eas foi condecorado pelo Rei Alberto I, da B\u00e9lgica, pela assist\u00eancia religiosa prestada. Ele conseguiu converter v\u00e1rios oper\u00e1rios que viviam no local, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\u201cI note that Father Eust\u00e1quio stopped drinking wine, a resolution to which he remained faithful throughout his life, even when he was still assisting the Walloon (Belgian) workers; I am convinced that he made this decision as a self-imposed penance. Likewise, even before arriving in Brazil, Father Eust\u00e1quio gave up smoking for the rest of his life. When I referred above to abstaining from wine, I mean that he abstained from any alcoholic beverage.<\/em>.\u201d
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