Saint Vincent de Paul

Sayings of Saint Vincent de Paul 

If by a whole life of toil and self-devotion we had hindered a single sin, the time and the trouble would not be lost. 

Saint Vincent de Paul

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Christian prudence consists in judging, speaking, and acting in the way that the Eternal Wisdom, clothed in our flesh, judged, spoke, and acted, and in guiding ourselves in all cases according to the maxims of faith, never according to the fallacious sentiments of the world, or the weak light of our own intellect. Human prudence, which is also called the prudence of the flesh and of the world, is that which has no other aim than what is temporal, thinks only of arriving at its end, and makes use of such methods and sentiments alone as are human.

Saint Vincent de Paul

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Obedience will open for us with perfect security the gate of heaven, closed for us of old by contempt of God's command, and still closed to those who are guilty of the same crime. - Saint Vincent de Paul 

Saint Vincent de Paul

September 27 Saint of the Day

September 27 Saint of the Day Saint Vincent de Paul

Profile:

Born to a peasant family. A highly intelligent youth, Vincent spent four years with the Franciscan friars at Acq, France getting an education. Tutor to children of a gentlemen in Acq. He began divinity studies in 1596 at the University of Toulouse. Ordained at age 20.

Taken captive by Turkish pirates to Tunis, and sold into slavery. Freed in 1607 when he converted one of his owners to Christianity.

Returning to France, he served as parish priest near Paris where he started organizations to help the poor, nursed the sick, found jobs for the unemployed, etc. Chaplain at the court of Henry IV of France. With Louise de Marillac, founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity. Instituted the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists). Worked always for the poor, the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored, the pariahs.

Born
• 24 April 1581 near Ranquine, Gascony near Dax, southwest France
• the town is now known as Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Landes, France

Died
• 27 September 1660 at Paris, France of natural causes
• body found incorrupt when exhumed in 1712
• body defleshed by a flood; skeleton encased in a wax effigy in the house of the Vincentian fathers in Paris
• heart incorrupt; displayed in a reliquary in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris

Beatified
13 August 1729 by Pope Benedict XIII

Canonized
16 June 1737 by Pope Clement XII

Patronage
• lepers; against leprosy
• charities; charitable societies (given on 12 May 1885 by Pope Leo XIII)
• charitable workers; volunteers
• horses
• hospital workers
• hospitals
• lost articles
• prisoners
• for spiritual help
• Madagascar
• Brothers of Charity
• Richmond, Virginia, diocese of
• Saint Vincent de Paul Societies
• Sisters of Charity
• Vincentian Service Corps

Representation
• 16th century cleric performing some act of charity
• cleric carrying an infant
• priest surrounded by the Sisters of Charity
• cannon ball and sword (referring to prisoners of war he ransomed)

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