Vincentian places

With other volunteer priests, Vincent gave missions in the villages belonging to the De Gondi family, in the Île-de-France, Champagne, and Picardy regions of France.

In August 1617 Vincent was a parish priest at Châtillon-les-Dombes where he founded the first Confraternity of Charity (precursor to the Ladies of Charity), a group of lay people to help those in need.

The Congregation of the Mission had its origins in a sermon given by St. Vincent in the parish church at Folleville.

In May 1612, Vincent de Paul took up the position of Parish Priest of Clichy, a small town of some 600 people, just to the northwest of Paris.

In 1610, Vincent lived in the Rue de Seine in Paris, and was one of several Chaplain-Almoners to Queen Marguérite de Valois, the first wife of Henry of Navarre (Henry IV of France).

Vincent was ordained at Château-l’Évêque in September 1600.

After his secondary studies at Dax, Vincent entered the university. He finished his studies at Toulouse in 1604 and received the baccalaureate in theology.

Vincent’s father sent him to Dax for four years, for secondary studies to be able to secure an ecclesiastical benefice.

Pouy (now known as St Vincent de Paul), was the village near Ranquine where Vincent de Paul was baptized.