FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

“We just hadn’t paid too much attention to the spirituality of our leaders,” said  (Daughter of Charity) Mary Kay Tyrell, chief mission and ministry officer for St. Thomas Health Services. “We just assumed that if we hired them, they were there by choice.”

The Confraternity of Charity (1617) was the first institutional expression of the Vincentian charism and it involved lay leadership for social action. Read Vincent’s own description of the event at the link above.