Jean Marie Odin CM (1800-70) shaped Texas history

Odin’s greatest contribution to the development of the church in the United States, however, was the effort that he made toward the revival of Catholicism in Texas during the period 1840-1861. (1800-1870). Jean Marie (John Mary) Odin, first Catholic bishop of...

History Vincentians in Australia

The first Vincentians arrived in Australia from Ireland in 1885, and they began their work with a mission at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney NSW.  The Australian Province of the Vincentians was established in 1926.   Vincentians in this Province now carry out...

Vincent’s Mission to the Royal Court

TIm Williams has put together a brief history and some photos of this period in the life of Vincent.” in 1638, on the orders of Louis,  some Priests of the Congregation of the Mission were part of a group organised by the Tuesday Conferences to give a Mission to...

History of the SSVDP in Canada

St. Vincent de Paul Society – National Council of Canada presents … The History of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Canada A Prophetic Institution “The question which divides people today is no longer about political structures but a social...

Fr. Maloney writes ”On Closing Doors”

America Magazine (Vol. 187 No. 5, August 26, 2002) features an article “On Closing Doors” by Robert P. Maloney, C.M. Patrick Kavanagh, the Irish poet, once wrote: We are not alone in our loneliness, Others have been here and known Griefs we thought our...
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