Main dates of his life

1601	Birth in Ri (Normandy, diocese of Sées), on November 14th
1615	College of the Jesuits in Caen
1620	Tonsure and minor orders
1623	Entrance in the Oratory of Paris
1624	Vow of service to Jesus
1625	Ordination as diacon and father ; stay to Aubervilliers
1627	In the service of the plague victims to Argentan (Orne)
1628	Member of the Community of the Oratory in Caen
1631	In the service of the plague victims in Caen
1632	Beginning of the preachings of the missions (several missions in the diocese of Coutances)
1636	Publication of The Exercise of devotion. Missions in the diocese of Saint-Malo
1637	Publication of Life and Kingdom of Jesus in the Christian souls. Vow of martyr.
1639	Mission in Saint-Etienne of Caen
1640	Superior of the Oratory of Caen
1641	Creation of the house Notre-Dame of the Refuge in Caen. Meeting  of Marie des Vallées to Coutances
1642	publication of the Catechism of the Mission. Visit to the Cardinal of Richelieu (patent letters for the seminary and the Refuge). Missions in Rouen, Saint-Lo, Saint-Malo
1643	Departure of the Oratory and foundation of the Congregation of Jesus and Marie and the Seminary of Caen. Missions to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte and to Valognes.
1645	Missions in Bourgogne
1647	Audience of Anne of Austria
1648	Mission to Autun. First celebration of the Heart of Mariy in Autun (in February 08th)
1650	Foundation of the seminary of Coutances
1651	Mission to Saint-Sulpice in Paris
1652	Mission in Coutances
1653	Foundation of the Seminary and the college of Lisieux. Mission to Lisieux
1654	Publication of the Contract of the man with God by saint Baptême
1656	Death of Marie des Vallées
1658	Foundation of the seminary of Rouen
1660	Mission in Paris in Quinze-Vingt and mission of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1664	Mission in Meaux
1665	Mission in Châlons-sur-Marne, in Saint-Peter of Caen. Pope Alexandre VII approves the Constitutions of Our Lady of Charity
1666	Publication: the good confessor. Mission to Evreux
1667	Foundation of the seminary of Evreux. Mission in Rouen
1668	Publication of Manuel of prayers; the Contract of alliance with the very Holy Virgin Mary
1669	Mission in Rennes
1670	Foundation of the seminary of Rennes; missions in Brittany.
1671	Mission to the Court, in Versailles
1672	First celebration of the Heart of Jesus (in October 20th) in Caen.
1673	Mission to the Court, to the Saint-Germain-en-Laye. N-D. of Charity in Rennes. Disgrace of king
1674	Letter to a doctor of the Sorbonne…
1676	Publication of The admirable Childhood of the Mother of God
1678	Jacques de Bonnefond, “visitor” of the Congregation
1679	Return of the royal favor: Jean Eudes is received by king in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
1680	Jean-Jacques Blouet de Camilly, elected general Superior of the Congregation. End of the writing of the Admirable Heart of the very sacred Mother of God. Jean Eudes’s death in Caen on August 19th.