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Title: Life of St. Vincent de Paul

Author: F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes

Release Date: January 5, 2009 [EBook #27706]

Language: English

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SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
c. 1581-1660

By F.A. [Francis Alice] Forbes

"Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor:
the Lord will deliver him in the evil day."
--Psalm 40:2

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite
of heart, to preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of reward."
--Luke 4:18-19

Nihil Obstat: Francis M. Canon Wyndham
Censor Deputatus

Imprimatur: Edmund Canon Surmont
Vicar General
Westminster
July 2, 1919

Originally published in 1919 by R. & T. Washbourne, Limited, London,
as _Life of St. Vincent de Paul_ in the series _Standard-bearers of
the Faith: A Series of Lives of the Saints for Young and Old._

"Extend mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need
whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God
should withdraw His mercy from us?"
--St. Vincent de Paul

CONTENTS

1. A Peasant's Son

2. Slavery

3. A Great Household

4. The Galleys

5. Mission Work

6. The Grey Sisters

7. The Foundlings

8. At Court

9. The Jansenists

10. Troubles in Paris

11. "Confido"

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL

"Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And
every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth
not, knoweth not God: for God is charity."
--1 John 4:7-8

Chapter 1
A PEASANT'S SON

A MONOTONOUS line of sand hills and the sea; a vast barren land
stretching away in wave-like undulations far as eye can reach; marsh
and heath and sand, sand and