Louise de Marillac, a portrait. Part I: The mystery of her ancestry and youth (5)

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Author: Jean Calvet, C.M. · Translator: G. F. Pullen. · Year of first publication: 1959.
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She passes through a crisis of depression LOUISE was not plunged into this state of confusion and weakness all at once. She resisted temptations. She profited from her trials, striving to ground herself in humility … Read More

Frederic Ozanam’s Tactical Wisdom for Today’s Consumer Society

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Author: Thomas McKenna, C.M. · Year of first publication: 2009 · Source: Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission.
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One of the ways a “classic” gets identified is by its aptitude to speak to ages beyond its own. The product of one era, it has an ability to bring its insight to the concerns … Read More

Louise de Marillac, a portrait. Part I: The mystery of her ancestry and youth (3)

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Author: Jean Calvet, C.M. · Translator: G. F. Pullen. · Year of first publication: 1959.
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The mystery of the ‘poor Demoiselle’ THEN LOUISE was withdrawn from the convent school at Poissy. When? Why? On whose authority? Of all those strange mysteries which abound in the childhood story of Louise de … Read More

Vincent Getting Away For Short Breaks

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Author: Tom Davitt, C.M. · Year of first publication: 2009 · Source: Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission.
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Quite a number of years ago a confrere, in conversation, pointed out something which has stuck in my mind ever since. He remarked that Vincent was always the senior confrere in the community, apart from … Read More

The Moderation of Vincent De Paul

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Author: Jim McCormack, C.M. · Year of first publication: 2010 · Source: Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission.
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In a book of dazzling intuition about St Francis of Assisi, GK Chesterton memorably remarked that Francis and Thomas Aquinas had saved us from spirituality. You may well blink. If you didn’t, you haven’t really … Read More

Louise de Marillac, a portrait. Part I: The mystery of her ancestry and youth (1)

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Author: Jean Calvet, C.M. · Translator: G. F. Pullen. · Year of first publication: 1959.
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Part I: The mystery of her ancestry and youth Marillac family origins IT is HARD today to appreciate the role played by the great families of France in the seventeenth century; they stood between the … Read More

How St Vincent Ferrer influenced St Vincent de Paul

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Author: Pat Collins, C.M. · Year of first publication: 2011 · Source: Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission.
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When I was reading about the life and works of Vincent Ferrer, whom I admire enormously, I was surprised to find that some of his biographers mentioned that he had a significant influence on St … Read More

Louise de Marillac, a portrait. Introduction

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Author: Jean Calvet, C.M. · Translator: G. F. Pullen. · Year of first publication: 1959.
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SOME SAINTS, although they lived perhaps centuries ago, are well known to us. Others are bound up inseparably with a great achievement in the Church in connection with which their names have become household words; … Read More