Vincent's Daily Life

VINCENT'S DAILY LIFE

A Reconstruction by John Rybolt, CM

Based on Contemporary Documents

This is an initial presention of a massive work by John Rybolt CM who has compiled a month by month calendar for Vincent's entire life.

John Rybolt writes...

"This calendar is a day-by-day listing of the known activities of Vincent de Paul from 1596 to 1660. Its purpose is to show graphically his activities in chronological relation to each other and, where possible, to track his movements while traveling on missions or other activities.

The sources for these events are principally his letters, conferences and other documents as published by Pierre Coste, Vincent de Paul, Correspondance, Entretiens, Documents, [CED] 14 vols., Paris, 1920-1925. In addition, many others have been used, and these are mentioned in the list of abbreviations accompanying the Calendar. The English translation of Coste's CED has been referenced for letters that were discovered after the publication of his work. These are generally given as the number of the letter used by Coste, plus the letter "a" or "b" as the case may be.

For some years and for many months, we have no indication of his activities. By the end of his life, however, we are much better informed. For those activities about which we know the month but not the exact date, I have placed them at the beginning of the month with an appropriate question mark about the exact date. I have also noted the occasions on which he stated that he had done something or received a letter, or that he would do something in the coming days. These are marked with a reference to the letter or conference in which the activity is mentioned.

This calendar also specifies his location whenever it is outside of Paris, principally away from Saint Lazare. Otherwise, it is presumed that he was writing from Saint Lazare. The mention of his location is given in boxed form at the foot of the day or days in question, along with the reference. For those days on which he repeated an activity, such as his annual retreat, these are repeated each day. Other recurring events, mainly feast days or other celebrations, such as his ordination anniversary, are presented as boxed on the day in question.

Where we have the data, information about his health condition is given in square brackets. This is particularly relevant toward the end of his life.

The compiler offers this calendar as a help in Vincentian research. He is very willing to receive corrections, updates and clarifications to improve the final product. May it have a long and useful life. At the moment this presentation covers only the year 1658.

A quick glance at each month rasies a question about whether Friday was his day for writing letters and that perhaps he took Thursday off at least from writing.

Month-by-month for the year 1658 (html format)

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(The numbers before most entries refers to the letter as it appears in the collected letters of Vincent.)

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1596 1597 1598 1599

1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609

1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619

1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629.

1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639

1640 1641 1642 1643 1644`1645 1646 1647 1648 1649

1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655`1656`1657 1658 1659

1660

Abbreviations used for the Calendar of St. Vincent de Paul

Abbreviation	Explanation
####	Number of the letter as given in Coste, Pierre, ed, Vincent de Paul, Letters, Conferences, Documents.  Refers to the date on the letter and the recipient.
Abelly	Abelly, Louis, The Life of the Venerable Servant of God Vincent de Paul; trans. William Quinn.  New Rochelle, NY, 1993. 3 vols.    + volume + page.
Acami	Acami, Domenico, Vita del Ven. Servo di Dio Vincenzo de Paoli, Rome, 1677.
ACM, Paris	Archives de la Congrégation de la Mission, Paris
AN	Archives Nationales, Paris
AN, Koch	Archives Nationales; transcriptions by B. Koch, in ACM, Paris
AN, Zurawski	Archives Nationales, document found by Simone Zurawski; ACM, Paris
Annali	Annali della Missione + volume + page
AnnCM	Annales de la Congrégation de la Mission,+ year + pages
AnnVis	Annales de la Visitation (Archives de la Visitation, blvd. Denfert-Rochereau, Paris)
ArchAsstPubl	Archives de l’Assistance Publique, Paris
BE	Bons Enfants, Paris
BibLaon	Bibliothèque Municipale de Laon (Koch ; ACM, Paris)
BLF	Bulletin des Lazaristes de France
Causa	Cause of the Beatification/Canonization of Vincent de Paul (volumes published in fascicles in Rome, various years)
Clichy
Cnf#	Conferences to the Congregation of the Mission + number
CSS	Confraternity of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Argenson, René de Voyer d’, Annales de la COmpagnie du Saint-Sacrement, Marseille, 1900)
Col	Collet, see below
Collet	Collet, Pierre, Vie de St. Vincent de Paul, Nancy, 1748;  + volume + page
Conference	A conference was given on a particular date, but the record of it did not survive.
Contassot	Félix Contassot, manuscript studies on Vincentian houses; ACM Paris.
Coste, Life	Coste, Pierre, Monsieur Vincent, the Great Saint of the Great Century
Coste,#	Coste, Pierre, ed., Vincent de Paul, Correspondance, Entretiens, Documents, + volume, + page
DC#	Conferences to Daughters of Charity + number
Denigot	Denigot, Maurice, « Monsieur Vincent, sa Congrégation à la Ferme d’Orsigny » Paris, 1978 (photocopied ms.)
Doc	Document, Coste, CCD, vol. 13
Dodin, Thesis	Dodin, André, “Louis Abelly, Biographe de Saint Vincent de Paul,” Thèse du doctorat; 3 vols., mimeographed.
Dubuisson-Aubeney	?
Fleury	? (about Joigny)
Guich	Guichard, Notes et Documents, ms. (ACM, Paris)
Jacquart	Jacquart, Jean, « Saint Vincent’s Real Estate Policy”, VH, VII:2 (1986) 181-202
Koch	Koch, Bernard, published and unpublished studies; at ACM, Paris
Krakow	Krakow dossier, archives of the Congregation of the Mission, Krakow
Ltr	Letter + number of the letter; refers to information contained in a particular letter.
MAP	Vincent de Paul.  Exposition organisée par l’Administration générale de l’Assistance Publique … Paris, 1960. [=Musée de l’Assistance publique]
Mathieu	R. Mathieu, Monsieur Vincent chez les de Gondy, [Montmirail ?] 1966
MC	Mission et Charité, vol. 15
MnC	Minutier Central ; unpublished documents, copies in ACM, Paris;  published, ed. by Jacquart (see above); others by Madeleine Jurgens and Marie-Antoinette Fleury, Documents du Minutier Central concernant l’Histoire littéraire (1650-1700), Paris, 1960.
MS Lyon	Garé/Depaule, Jeanine, « Les Lazaristes au XVIIe siècle d’après le manscrit 869 de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon », Mémoire de Maîtrise, 1986. 2 vols. (Photocopied). ACM, Paris.
MV	(Monsieur Vincent??)
Notaires	Josse, Raymond, « Saint Vincent de Paul par-devant ses notaires », Le Vieux Papier, Oct. 1992, fasc. 326.
Notices	Notices sur les pretres, clercs et freres defunts de la Congrega-tion de la Mission, [1625-1800: vols. l-2] Paris, 1881, 1885.
Orcibal	?
Pémartin	?
Prévost	Prévost, A., Saint Vincent de Paul et ses œuvres dans le diocèse de Troyes. Troyes, 1896.
RHE	Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique
Rob	Robineau, Louis : Monsieur Vincent raconté par son secrétaire ; ed. A. Dodin. Paris, 1991.
RW	Wulfman, René, « Charité publique et finances privées » Monsieur Vincent, gestionnaire et saint. Thèse du doctorat, Paris, Sorbonne, 1998
SpanDoc	Vicente de Paúl, San, Obras completas. Trad. A. Ortiz García. Salamanca, 1972-1986. (Documents, vol. X)
StLz	Saint Lazare, Paris
Tallement de Réaux	Charles Perrault, ed., Tallement des Reaux, Les Historiettes, Paris : Bibliotheque de La Pleiade, 1960.
Vinc	Vincentiana