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Some Remarkable Statements of Monsieur Vincent Regarding the Spirit of Humility and the Other Virtuous Dispositions He Wished to See as the Foundation of His New Congregation Monsieur Vincent saw that God’s hand was with … Read More

The Birth and Establishment of the Congregation of the Mission We could truthfully say that this Congregation in its beginnings was that small mustard seed spoken of in the Gospel: although the least of all … Read More

English translation of Abbé Maynard, Vertus et doctrine spirituelle de Saint Vincent de Paul (1870). From the translator’s preface: This work presents most completely the virtue of the saint, and marks most fully and clearly … Read More

Monsieur Vincent’s Dispositions of Body and Soul and his Manner of Acting Monsieur Vincent was of medium height and well proportioned. His head was somewhat fleshy, large enough, but well suited to the rest of … Read More

To understand M. Vincent de Paul as evangeliser and worker for the poor we must understand the socio-political world in which he lived. He was a worker of political charity, both liberated by and constrained … Read More

Madame de Gondi Passes from This Life to a Better One. Monsieur Vincent Goes to the College des Bons Enfants The foundation of the priests of the Mission was the one dearest to the heart … Read More

English translation of Monseigneur Bougaud, Histoire de saint Vincent de Paul, fondateur de la Congrégation des Prêtres de la Mission et des Filles de la Charité, Paris, Poussielgue frères Ch. Poussielgue, successeur, 1889, t. I, … Read More

“Absent minded child” Msgr. Ronald Knox said, some four hundred years after the death of St Philip Neri, that Philip “absent mindedly” founded the community that was originally only a movement centred around friendship with … Read More

He is Appointed Head of the College des Bons Enfants, and Later Makes the First Foundation of the Congregation of the Mission Madame de Gondi, as we have already said, saw both the need and … Read More

Pierre Collet, Life of St. Vincent de Paul: Founder of the Congregation of the Mission and the Sisters of Charity, trans. by a Catholic Clergyman (Baltimore, Md: John Murphy and Co., 1850).