Optional memorials of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, priest (†1868 La Mure – France). He was born in 1811 in a village near Grenoble, France. Working as a laborer until 18, he studied with a priest in his spare time. In 1831 he entered the seminary of Grenoble and  was ordained only three years later. The center of his spiritual life was always devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. He founded the Institute of Priests Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament, better known as the Sacramentines.