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![May 21: St. Vincent de Paul Sends First Missionaries to Madagascar](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/st-vincent-madagascar-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
May 21: St. Vincent de Paul Sends First Missionaries to Madagascar
Today is the anniversary of the first missionaries to leave France for Madagascar, May 21, 1648. The voyage took about 7 months and obviously there were many dangers. Read more about the men who risked their lives to bring the light of the gospel to a faraway land,...
![May 23: Feast of St. Joan Antida Thouret](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/joan-antida-thouret-feast-day-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
May 23: Feast of St. Joan Antida Thouret
At 22, Joan Antida Thouret left her home and joined the Daughters of Charity. This life is an exile– a desert we must cross to reach our only true homeland which is heaven. – Saint Joan Antida Thouret https://youtu.be/rNIVuqOgZ8g In 1793, when the French Revolution...
![Celebrating Mother’s Day With St. Elizabeth and St. Louise](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/seton-louise-mothers-day-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Celebrating Mother’s Day With St. Elizabeth and St. Louise
St. Elizabeth and St. Louise are women who knew... the happiness and struggles of marriage, the joys and concerns of motherhood, the challenges of parenting alone... and the love of a generous God in whose Providence they put all their trust. Read more in the...
![This Day in Vincentian History: May 12](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/2-CMs-bishops-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
This Day in Vincentian History: May 12
On May 12, 1888, John Joseph Lynch, C.M., the first Archbishop of Toronto, Canada, died. He was born at Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, 6 Feb., 1816. He attended Castleknock College and College of St. Lazare, Paris. He did missionary work in Ireland, throughout the...
![Love Was the Driving Force of St. Louise de Marillac’s Life](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/love-st-louise-driving-force-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Love Was the Driving Force of St. Louise de Marillac’s Life
"Anxiety over her son was the last major obstacle to the tranquility she needed to begin the Company. By 1633, she could devote herself to the spiritual formation of the Daughters and to foster the love they had for each other, which in turn was to be motivated by the...
![May 9: Feast of St. Louise de Marillac](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/charpy-videos-st-louise-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
May 9: Feast of St. Louise de Marillac
As St. Louise’s feast day approaches, we would like to highlight a series of three videos in which Sr. Louise Sullivan, DC talks with Sr. Elisabeth Charpy, DC about St. Louise’s life and works.
![May 2 is St. Catherine Labouré’s Birthday](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/04/st-catherine-birthday-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
May 2 is St. Catherine Labouré’s Birthday
In celebration of her birthday on Tuesday, watch this video overview of the life of St. Catherine Labouré.
![Feast of St. Gianna Beretta Molla](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/04/st-gianna-feast-facebook.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Feast of St. Gianna Beretta Molla
It was during medical school that Gianna became an active member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
![April 23: Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/09/ozanam-charity-justice-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
April 23: Anniversary of the Foundation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Shortly after Frederic Ozanam's death, Pope Pius IX addressed a delegation of four hundred members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul who had been sent to Rome: "My children, you are crusaders of Christ in a world which will listen no longer to sermons, nor heed...
![Frederic Ozanam’s Birthday: April 23](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/04/ozanam-vision-action-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Frederic Ozanam’s Birthday: April 23
Sunday is the birthday of Frederic Ozanam, the founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Paris of the early 19th century was in the grip of great upheavals.