Part of a Series on Vincentian Heritage Places

Switzerland

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In 1836, three years after the family visit to Italy, Frédéric and his brother Alphonse had enjoyed each other’s company on a journey through Switzerland. Alphonse had “wanted to hike in Switzerland” as a necessary distraction from his “laborious occupations,” and Frédéric “was his natural companion.” Frédéric even referred to Alphonse in his correspondence as “my guardian angel.”

After the deaths of both parents, the three “orphans”— Frédéric, Alphonse, and Charles— became “welded together,” like the three musketeers of Dumas’s imagination, a close-knit band trusting in each other’s support and devotion.

Source: Antoine Frédéric Ozanam by Raymond L. Sickinger, University of Notre Dame Press

All Vincentian Places in this Series

Red = Vincent de Paul, Blue = Frederic Ozanam, Teal = Elizabeth Seton, Yellow = Louise de Marillac

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