by CM Communications | Oct 20, 2020 | News, Vincentian Saints
San Fele (PZ), 9 October 2020. Justin De Jacobis is remembered, in the small Lucanian town where he came into the world 220 years ago, as a “man of dialogue and weaver of fraternity.” The initiative intended to inaugurate the missionary month of October in Basilicata,...
by Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | Vincentian Saints
Catherine Labouré is a very human woman, a saint very close to us. Her life was, at the same time, extraordinarily simple and extraordinarily remarkable. She possessed a true passion for God, the Blessed Virgin, Saint Vincent and those who are poor. Her personality...
by Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | 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 Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | 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 Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | Vincentian Saints
For Ghebre-Mikael, a martyr in search for the truth, knowledge of the various theological factions was insufficient. He wanted the truth handed down in the Scriptures, expressed by the Fathers of the Church, formulated in the early Councils of the Church and to which...
by Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | 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...
