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May 30 is the feast day of Blessed Marta Wiecka, D.C., a Polish Daughter of Charity who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Articles for Vincentian Family Blesseds
May 25, 1802: Blessed Rosalie Rendu Enters the Daughters of Charity in Paris
Blessed Rosalie Rendu was only 15 years old when she became a Daughter of Charity. For the next 54 years she dedicated herself to serving the poor in the Mouffetard, the most deprived district of Paris.
Life of Blessed Nemesia Valle
Sr. Némésia Valle (Sisters of St. Joan Antida) was beatified on this date in 2004 by Pope St. John Paul II.
Vincentian Family in AMERICA Magazine
Why We Need to Canonize More Lay Saints Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the “universal call to holiness,” there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints, as models of sanctity for lay Catholics. Several contemporary saints have...
Daughters of Charity – faithful unto death
February 1 marks the anniversary of the Martyrs of Angers, Daughters of Charity ODILE BAUMGARTEN & MARIE-ANNE VAILLOT. For more information visit Vincentian Encyclopedia Article Martyrs of Angers as described in a homily by Fr. Richard Mc Cullen, C.M. February...