FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

YouTube hosts a video clip made by students at DePaul University in Chicago IL. and show icons of Vincent de Paul through the eyes of children who use techniques employed by Br Mark Elder CM of Chicago. Click on the graphic to view the video and the icon at far right of video bar for full screen view. The video is about 4 mins duration and is titled “The Making of an Icon”.

With program #1 Rekindling the Fire, Beacons of Light (Louisiana Catholic TV) focuses on how our collective experience of Hurricanes Katina and Gustav can help us identify with these two great saints, who lived during the tumult of Europe’s post-Reformation and the Thirty Years War. The Beacons of Light 2010 television series celebrates the 350th [...]

At recent unveiling of the Zafen website created by dePaul University to support the Vincentian Family efforts in Haiti Bro. Mark (AKA Buffalo Bro) offers a variation of the technique he has used in creating wall sized murals of Vincent in and around Chicago. In this one he uses a small stencil of the Haitian [...]

Three centuries after his time, the story of St.Vincent de Paul is making international rounds at film festivals in Ireland, England and America. See its debut on CatholicTV this September 27. Three centuries after his death, the story of St. Vincent de Paul is making international rounds at film festivals in Ireland, England and America—and [...]

Adamson University in the Philippines is offering a special St. Vincent de Paul Award in order to To promote the concept and framework of “systemic change” in working for the poor; To give rightful recognition to persons/ groups that work together in uplifting the general living conditions of persons in situations of poverty and misery; [...]

The images of Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul above are taken from a flyer (posted on the CM Madrid Site) produced by the Spanish Interprovincial Team youth discernment day.  The gathering is titled  “Puertas Abiertas” (“Opened Doors”)  and will be held in Madrid from May 7-9.    (Note: If you visit the original site [...]