Vincentian Family Blesseds

August 30: Blessed Ghebre-Michael

by Famvin Media Resources | August 31, 2018 | Formation | 1 Comment

Today is the feast day of Blessed Ghebre-Michael, an Ethiopian priest (associated with St. Justin de Jacobis, C.M.) who was tortured and died for refusing to renounce Catholicism.

August 2: Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla

by Famvin Media Resources | August 3, 2018 | Formation | 2 Comments

Blessed Ceferino was a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Spain. Because he is considered the patron of the Rom and Sinti peoples, his biography appears on the website of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.

June 26: Blessed Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Marie-Françoise Lanel, Thérèse Fantou, Jeanne Gérard and Marguerite Rutan

by Famvin Media Resources | June 22, 2018 | Formation | 0 Comments

June 26 is the memorial of Blessed Marguerite Rutan D.C., and Blessed Maria Magdalene Fontaine D.C. and Companions, Martyrs of Arras. Learn more in two SlideShare presentations.

May 30: Blessed Marta Anna Wiecka, DC

by Famvin Media Resources | June 1, 2018 | Formation | 0 Comments

Watch a video about Blessed Marta Anna Wiecka, a Daughter of Charity who served the sick with great devotion.

September 2: Congregation of the Mission Martyrs of the French Revolution

by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 1, 2019 | Congregation of the Mission, Formation

Blessed Louis-Joseph François, Blessed Jean-Henri Gruyer, Blessed Pierre-René Rogue, Blessed Jean-Charles Caron, and Blessed Nicolas Colin were martyred along with many others during the French Revolution on September 2 and 3, 1792 after they refused to take an oath that would have placed them under the authority of the state.