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Saint Vincent de Paul 1580?-1660, French priest renowned for charitable work, b. Gascony. He was ordained in 1600. There are conflicting stories about his capture by pirates and enslavement in Tunis and his subsequent escape. In Rome he came to the attention of Pope Paul V, who sent him on a mission to the French court of Henry IV, where Vincent remained as chaplain to the queen. His activism, and the holiness of his life brought about the revival of French Catholicism. He inspired many of the court to an interest in the poor of Paris and was the founder of organized charity in France. In 1625 he founded an order of secular priests to work in rural areas; it became the Congregation of the Mission, called Lazarists or Vincentians. With these priests, St. Vincent conducted retreats, founded seminaries, and achieved widespread reform among the French clergy. For city work he founded the Sisters of Charity. St. Vincent's influence, through his spirit and through his institutions, is incalculable. He was canonized in 1737. Feast: Sept. 27.

Bibliography: See J. Leonard, ed., Letters of St. Vincent de Paul (1938); biographies by H. Daniel-Rops (1961) and M. Purcell (1963); P. Coste, The Life and Works of Saint Vincent de Paul (3 vol., tr. 1952).

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Vincent de Paul, St (or Vincent Depaul, St) (1581–1660), founder of the Lazarists and of the ‘Sisters of Charity’. Captured by pirates, he spent two years as a slave in Tunisia. From 1613 to 1626 he was attached to the house hold of the Count de Gondi, General of the galleys; as chaplain of the galleys from1619 he did much to relieve the lot of the prisoners. In 1625 he founded the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists, q.v.). In 1633, with St Louise de Marillac, he founded the ‘Sisters of Charity’, the first congregation of women who were not enclosed and took no final vows; they were devoted to the care of the sick and poor. Feast day, 27 Sept. (formerly 19 July).

The ‘Society of St Vincent de Paul’, founded in 1833, is a lay association for the service of the poor.

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