20 Years of Vincentian Studies Institute
Beth
July 24, 2002
The First Twenty Years of the Vincentian Studies Institute of the United States (1979-1999)
By
Edward R. Udovic, C.M.
http://condor.depaul.edu/~vstudies/Html/twentyyear.html
The modern origin of the Vincentian Studies Institute can be found in the Second Vatican Council’s mandate that religious communities renew themselves in light of the “signs of the times.” The council suggested that this renewal take place within the context of a careful self-reflection by each community of its charism, heritage and praxis.1
A more remote origin of the Institute can be found in the work done by a variety of French Vincentian historians beginning in the mid-nineteenth century after the Vincentian Family’s post-revolutionary restoration.