Feast 27 September
Father of the poor. The Lazarists. The Daughters of Charity with Louise.
Sacred art
No photograph of St. Vincent de Paul is shown. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a substitute for the life written below.
Died 1660. A man who organized mercy so that it would outlive a mood. Patron of charitable societies.
If it belongs to Vincent, it is here, with a door back into the story.
Chapel of the Vincentians, Rue de Sèvres, ParisDied 1660; relics in Paris
The apostle of charity. His bones rest in a silver effigy above the altar; his heart is kept apart, long described as unusually preserved. Pilgrims come for the man who invented the parish poor as a vocation.
Rue du Bac, ParisDied 1660
Co-founder of the Daughters of Charity with Vincent. Her body, found well preserved, lies in the chapel of Rue du Bac, across from Catherine Labouré and the chair of the apparitions.
San Salvatore in Onda, RomeDied 1850; body in San Salvatore in Onda
Roman priest, founder of the Pallottines, apostle of the idea that every Catholic is an apostle. The body is under the altar in his church in the Regola, a short walk from the Campo de’ Fiori.
