Appendices Note I. to Part I, Chapter III ACTE D’ASSOCIATION PASSE ENTRE S. VINCENT DE PAUL ET SES TROIS PREMIERS COMPAGNONS Nous Vincent de Paul p’bre et principal du Collège des Bons Enfans fondé à … Read More
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Chapter X: The last days WE have seen that the closing years did not bring outward peace into M. Vincent’s life ; the tragedy of the Madagascar Mission overshadowed him, and he was never free … Read More
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Chapter IX: S. Lazare and Port Royal THE history of the foreign Missions undertaken and directed by M. Vincent brings home to us with new vividness the extraordinary quality of his capacity for detachment. His … Read More
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Chapter VIII: The foreign missions A CERTAIN infection lies in the display of courage. The Lazarists at Marseilles, who held their lives so lightly, were partly responsible for the fine indifference to danger which came … Read More
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Chapter VII: The vocation of a Mission Priest THE letters of M. Vincent to the Priests of the Mission declare to us his mind on the subject of vocation. One meaning of vocation to him … Read More
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Chapter VI: M. Vincent and his sons ” THERE are certain souls which are most difficultto guide, and there are natures of different types which tend to things that are unusual and often undesirable. You … Read More
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Chapter V: The Company of Mission priests IF M. Vincent had been forced to compare the importance and the value of those achievements which are connected with his name, it is quite certain that his … Read More
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Chapter IV: The Ladies of Charity THERE are many indications that for actual work—whether as Nursing Sisters or as Mission Priests in country districts, M. Vincent considered the lower and middle class as the most … Read More
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Chapter III: M. Vincent and his Daughters IT is only by following M. Vincent in his guidance of the Sisters of Charity that we can understand how they gained their position in France and in … Read More
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Chapter II: The rule of the Sisters of Charity WE have seen the gradual degrees by which the Company of Sisters of Charity advanced to their position as a great institution. Collectively and individually they … Read More