Saint John Eudes was a seventeenth century French priest and Roman Catholic Saint who founded two Roman Catholic religious fraternities in the form of the Eudists (aka the Congregation of Jesus and Mary) and the monastic Order of Our Lady of Charity.
I thought it apt to point out that this pious man held a very dim view in regards to the jews as he asserted – for example – in a letter to an abbot in 1675 that jews were – and are – wholly responsible for the death of Jesus Christ and are thus culpable of Deicide. (1)
This has been echoed by Eudes’ biographer such as Father Charles Lebrun who pointed out that the Saint viewed the jews who crucified Jesus as being agents of the powers of darkness and who were possessed by devils. (2) Despite this Eudes considered that the actions of the jews themselves –despite their consummate evil – testified to Christ’s divine nature and mission. (3)
Therefore, we can see that Saint John Eudes was certainly no friend of the jews.
References
(1) Saint John Eudes, Ruth Hauser (Trans.), 1948, ‘Letters and Shorter Works’, 1st Edition, P. J. Kennedy & Sons: New York, p. 249
(2) Charles Lebrun, 1934, ‘The Spiritual Teaching of St. John Eudes’, 1st Edition, Sands & Co: London, p. 189
(3) Ibid, p. 201