Father Portal devoted his life to the dream of Church unity, seeing the Church as the ever-growing Mystical Body of Christ, open to all believers. He believed true unity required faith, prayer, charity, and humility—echoing the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul and reaching beyond confessional boundaries.

The Count of Aljezur was an outstanding Vincentian layman who devoted his life to the service of Christian charity and the expansion of the Vincentian charism. A man of deep faith and commitment, his legacy lives on as an example of dedication to others and fidelity to the Vincentian mission.

Sister Barbe Angiboust, a seventeenth-century French peasant woman, devoted her life as a Daughter of Charity to serving the poor, the sick, and the marginalized with steadiness, humility, and self-giving. Her work in hospitals, schools, and prisons made her one of the pillars of the Company.