FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

St. Vincent de Paul,
St. Louise de Marillac,
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton,
Bl. Marie Anne Vaillot,
Bl. Odile Baumgarten,
St. Francis Regis Clet,
St. John Gabriel Perboyre,
St. Jeanne Antide Thouret,
Bl. Marie Madeleine Fontaine,
etc.Vincentian Litany

SYDNEY, October 29, 2006 (catholicweekly.com.au) John O’Neill, NSW/ACT state president of the St Vincent de Paul Society, writes … With the advent of All Saints Day on Wednesday, November 1, a day instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, I thought it would be a good opportunity to take time to [...]

The Daughters of Charity Health Center will be operating a health clinic in New Orleans to serve the special needs of residents residing in the Ninth Ward.The United Health Foundation has announced that it will provide funding to establish and operate yet another community health care center. This latest center, the Daughters of Charity Health [...]

Sister Patricia Fallon, 86, was awarded the Bene Merenti medal by Cardinal Keith O’Brien in Edinborough, Scotland. She has dedicated more than 50 years of her life to a church in Scotland’s capital.
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Photo of medal

Education for Justice has produced a short 2 page fact sheet on the issue of a living wage.It can be downloaded.

Of interest to famvin subscribers is the fac the Blessed Frederic proposed a “natural wage” ssome 50 years before Rerum Novarum, the first ot the great Social Encyclicals.

He called for more than a minimum or [...]

The Vincentina Marian Youth sponsored by the Daughters of Charity Province of the West has a new web site.http://www.vmyusawest.net/

From their bulletin…

There are many vibrant Vincentian Marian Youth organizations throughout the Province of the West whose members continue to live out and spread the message of Love to others. These organizations have helped their members [...]

Contardo Ferrini, patron of universities, was a member of the Society of St. Vincent dePaul and the saint featured on AmericanCatholic.org for October 26.Contardo Ferrini was the son of a teacher who went on to become a learned man himself, one acquainted with some dozen languages. Today he is known as the patron of universities.
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The St Vincent de Paul Society has warned that credit card customers who pay the minimum on their bills end up paying outrageously high interest rates.
The charity also criticised the prominence given on credit card bills to the minimum payment credit customers must make.

The Minister for Social and Family Affairs (Ireland) responded that legislation maybe [...]

On the occasion of their stay in Rome for a meeting of the Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea, Msgr. Leonardus Dobbelaar, C.M. (Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemte), Msgr. Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (Archbishop of Addis Ababa) and Msgr. Theo Van Ruijven (Apostolic Prefect of Jimma Bonga) were at the General Curia on [...]

October 27, 1947 marks the establishment of the Federation of the Sisters of Charity in the Vincentian and Setonian Traditon.Visit the entry in the Vincentian Encyclopedia

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