Monsignor Bruno Valentin, future bishop of Aude, stood out by blessing the shelves of the supermarket in the Leclerc Rocadest shopping center. He drew a number of ridicule.
Monsignor Bruno Valentin, future bishop of Aude, visited the premises of the Leclerc hypermarket in the Rocadest commercial area after closing on March 16. In the presence of business manager Laurent Boissonade, a practicing Catholic and a deacon, he undertook to bless the establishment. The man of faith justified himself in the columns of our colleagues from Parisian: “It was just a prayer that called for reflection on well-being at work. We did not pray for trade margins or against inflation.”
The mocked initiative
In the midst of protests against the pension reform, the joint initiative of the diocese and the entrepreneur was mocked on social networks. On condition of anonymity another member of the clergy declares: “The French live a difficult daily life, I would rather have preferred a school, not a temple of consumption.” On the side of Internet users some mock “Didn’t Jesus chase the merchants from the temple?” or even “Has the bishop gone to the halal department?”. Just in his fifties, the current coadjutor bishop of Carcassonne and Narbonne is to succeed Bishop Alain Planet, who has resigned and who will reach the age limit of 75 in November. His first big file will be the plenary assembly of the bishops of France from March 28 to 31 in Lourdes.
