by CM Communications | Sep 11, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
“Ask God for my conversion and my sanctification,… so that I may accomplish at least a part of his designs for me and grant me His mercy for the rest.” Excerpt from a letter of John Gabriel Perboyre to his brother, in charge of the Sacristy at St. Lazare, Motherhouse...
by CM Communications | Sep 9, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
Antony Frederic Ozanam, with a group of seven friends, founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, chosen as his patron under the influence of Sister Rosalie Rendu, Daughter of Charity, who would accompany them in their first steps in the visit to the poor in...
by CM Communications | Aug 29, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
A short sentence in the book of Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth) (4:12), taken by Francis Regis Clet to encourage his missionary confreres to a profound experience of fraternity and as a support in their mission, can also be used as a synthesis of his life: A three-ply...
by CM Communications | Aug 3, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
At he launch of new website of the Congregation of the Mission, cmglobal.org, on July 19, Superior General, Father Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., invited us to point out a CM saint to become the patron saint of the new website. We started a survey on who could be the selected...
by CM Communications | Jul 30, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
Of the many sons of Vincent de Paul who have been exemplary in their vocation and evangelizers of the poor, some have been put forward for us to admire and take as a role model. Justin de Jacobis – the great apostle of the Abyssinian people (known today as the people... by CM Communications | Feb 3, 2018 | News, Vincentian Saints
Charity was the rule of her life, her thoughts, her words and her actions. She lived in humility, giving herself to the love of Christ and to living the mystery: a charity brought to life towards the poor is an act of love towards God. The blessed Giuseppina Nicoli,...
