FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

Sr. Jean Marie Williams, DC shares with us the very well done presented of the life of Bl. Marta WIecka, DC, who died in 1904 and was beatified May 24, 2008. For this presentation as well as others on Vincentian Saints and Blesseds visit the “Saints and Blesseds” page of VinFormation, a project of famvin.org.

On 19 July 1859, Cardinal Wiseman celebrated Mass with the Daughters of Charity in the attic of their first house in London.. Archbishop Nichols said that while the Sisters’ first Superior in London Sr Marie Chatelaine,  had faced hostile shouts and boys  throwing stones at her when she first arrived,  when she died 46 years [...]

Elizabeth Ann Seton’s 234th birthday will be celebrated at the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg  with a Mass followed by birthday events including visits to the Stone House, where she first lived and the White House in which she opened the first free school for girls in the United States on Feb. [...]

At 108 Sister Esther Diaz is the oldest among the nearly 20,000 members of the Daughters of Charity worldwide and celebrates her birthday August 21. She takes very few medications and is hardly ever sick. She served most of her life as a teacher, even spending time in China in the 1920s.