by CM Communications | May 23, 2019 | News, Spirituality, Vincentian Saints
Jeanne Antide was born into a Christian family on November 27, 1765, in Sancey-Le Long. Baptized on the day of her birth, she received the Christian faith that will be nourished by the teachings of her mother, by those of the parish priest and by her benevolent...
by CM Communications | Feb 7, 2019 | News, Vincentian Saints
Jeanne- Marie Rendu (Sister Rosalie), daughter of Antoine Rendu and Marie-Anne Laracine, was born 9 September 1786 at Confort, in the district of Gex in the Jura Mountains of southeastern France near the Swiss border. She lived her whole life as a Daughter of Charity,...
by CM Communications | Feb 4, 2019 | News, Vincentian Saints
Charity was the rule of her life, her thoughts, words and actions. She lived in humility, plunging herself in the love of Christ and penetrating the mystery : charity to the poor is an act of love of the Lord. 1863, 18 November birth 1884 entrance into the Daughters...
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...
