Reliquary / Relic：St. Vincent de Paul

Description: Size：cm Material：silver 1 class Wax seal：Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists) Memorial：27 September，formerly 19 July 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 Francethe town is now known as Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Landes, FranceDied：27 September 1660 at Paris, France of natural causesbody found incorrupt when exhumed in 1712body defleshed by a flood; skeleton encased in a wax effigy in the house of the Vincentian fathers in Parisheart incorrupt; displayed in a reliquary in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris Beatified：21 August 1729 by Pope Benedict XIIICanonized：16 June 1737 by Pope Clement XII Patronage：against leprosycharitable societies (given on 12 May 1885 by Pope Leo XIII)charitable workerscharitieshorseshospital workershospitalsleperslost articlesorphanspoor peopleprisonersspiritual helpvolunteers–Brothers of CharitySaint Vincent de Paul SocietiesSisters of CharityVincentian CongregationVincentian Service Corps

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