A founder of the SVDP blocked as a Judge for opposing slavery

This little known fact is but one of many presented in Ralph Middlecamp’s recent addition to the Vincentian Encyclopedia – Paul Lamache. For those not familiar with his earlier research on the “other”  founders of the the Society of St. Vincent de Paul visit his SVDP Founders article.

A biographer noted, “that it was a beautiful spectacle to see this old man of more than eighty years still going up into the attics visiting the poor. He liked to be accompanied by one by his grandchildren; the gracious child, schooled in charity, sometimes added to it a bouquet gathered in the garden of her grandfather.”