Vincentian Saints and Blesseds

Vincentian Saints and Blesseds
In the more than 300 years
since Saints Vincent and
Louise lived in service to the
Poor, many have been
inspired to walk in their
footsteps.

St. Vincent de Paul
St. Vincent de Paul was a
17th century priest whose
influence is still being felt
today through the more
than 2 million people who
are inspired by him and
serve in the many
Vincentian organizations.
More at the Vincentian Encyclopedia

St. Louise de Marillac
As a wife, mother, teacher,
nurse, social worker,
mentor, spiritual leader,
and foundress, St. Louise
de Marillac stands as a
model to all women.

Bl. Jean-Charles Caron
A Congregation of the
Mission priest who refused
to sign the Civil
Constitution of the Clergy
during the French
Revolution, Jean-Charles
Caron was martyred.

Bl. Nicolas Colin
Nicolas Colin was driven
from his presbytery and
replaced by a priest loyal to
the Civil Constitution. He is
known to have said: “...as
reward for my fidelity to the
faith, hunger, exile, prison
and, perhaps even death
itself.”

Bl. Marie-Anne Vaillot
Marie-Anne Vaillot comforted
Odile Baumgarten as they were
waiting execution by saying
“We will have the happiness of
seeing God and possessing him
for all eternity... and we will be
possessed by him without fear
of being ever separated from
him.”

Bl. Marguerite Rutan
Marguerite Rutan entered the
Company of the Daughters of
Charity to be near those who
were suffering, marginalized or
excluded. Her faithfulness to
Christ and the Church lead her
to martyrdom at the time of
the French Revolution.
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St. Francis Regis Clet
St. Francis Regis Clet was a
Vincentian priest who in
1820 was found guilty of
deceiving the Chinese
people by preaching
Christianity and was
sentenced to strangulation
on a cross.

Bl. Odile Baumgarten
Odile Baumgarten “was
regarded to be one of the
strongest opponents of the
revolutionary ideas, and
believed to have influenced
many other sisters to resist
what the civil authorities
wanted to do.”

Bl. Louis Joseph François
Louis Joseph François “was one
of the most zealous and best
defenders of the Catholic religion
against the oath demanded from
priests by the French National
Assembly.” He was thrown out of
a window, where a group of
women battered him to death
with wooden clubs, for his faith.

Bl. Jean-Henri Gruyer
“Saint Louis parish was taken over
by priests who had taken the oath of
fidelity to the Civil Constitution of
the Clergy, which asserted that the
Pope had no authority in France and
provided for election of bishops and
priests by panels of citizens.” Jean-
Henri Gruyer left and went to Paris
to ask for temporary accommodation
in Saint-Firmin only to be held
captive and killed within a day.

Bl. Pierre-René Rogue
Pierre-René Rogue accepted state
money for priestly ministry for
“his view was that he had done
the work and therefore should be
paid.” During the troubles of the
Revolution, he convinced the
superior of the seminary not to
take an oath to be loyal to the
state, the law and the King.

St. Joan Antida Thouret
St. Joan Antida Thouret’s desire
to commit herself to Christ and
to her religious vocation gave
her the courage to flee France
during the chaos of the French
Revolution, on foot and alone.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
The first United States-born
canonized Saint and foundress
of the Sisters of Charity of Saint
Joseph’s, the first community of
religious women founded in the
United States, are attributed to
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She
was a wife, mother, then a
widow, and a teacher.

Bl. Rosalie Rendu
“Her example encouraged her
Sisters. She often told them: ‘Be a
milestone where all those who are
tired have the right to lay down
their load.’” Sr. Rosalie was sought
out by schools and organizations
performing good works (such as
the first conference of the St.
Vincent de Paul Society) for advice.

Bl. Ghebre-Michael
Ghebre Michael was a disciple
of Justin de Jacobis who died as
a Vincentian seminarist. He was
an African convert who died as
a prisoner because he would not
renounce his faith.

St. Justin de Jacobis
St. Justin de Jacobis was one of the
first Italian missionary Vincentian
Priests to go to Ethiopia, a
Christian country that had slipped
into schism and heresy. Under
resentment from Paris because he
was not French, he integrated into
the Ethiopian culture and is
considered an apostle to Africa.

Bl. Marco Antonio Durando
One initiative of Marco Antonio
Durando was the propagation of
the Marian Association of the
Miraculous Medal among young
people. The Association became
a fertile ground for vocations; in
only ten years, 260 young
women of the area joined the
Daughters of Charity.

St. John Gabriel Perboyre
A missionary priest and martyr
of the Congregation of the
Mission, St. John Gabriel
Perboyre was tortured by the
Chinese. He declared “I would
sooner die than deny my faith!”

St. Catherine Labouré
The Blessed Mother displayed
herself to St. Catherine Labouré
and described the images to be
put on medallions that we know
as the Miraculous Medal. She
told her that “All who wear
them will receive great graces.”

Bl. Frédéric Ozanam
This brilliant, sensitive young man
of middle class background was
confronted daily by the misery of
the working poor of Paris,
immortalized in Puccini's La
Boheme. He and a group of
students founded the St. Vincent de
Paul Society, which now has
700,000 members in 142 countries.

Bl. Némésia Valle
"Jesus, empty me of myself, let
me be clothed in you. Jesus, for
you I live and for you I die..."
was a prayer said by Némésia
Valle throughout her life.

Bl. Contardo Ferrini
Contardo Ferrini said "If on any
particular day we do nothing
more than give a little joy to a
neighbor, that day will not be
wasted. For we have succeeded
in giving comfort to an
immortal soul."

Bl. Giuseppina Nicoli
Giuseppina Nicoli as a Daughter
of Charity worked in religious
education for the needy of all
ages along with girls from
wealthy families. She provided a
model of direct service to the
poor.

St. Agostina Pietrantoni
Saint Agostina Pietrantoni, a
Sister of Charity of Saint
Jeanne-Antide Thouret, was
attacked and killed by a patient
she cared for as she uttered
words of forgiveness and
invocations to Mary.

Bl. Anna Marta Wiecka
Sister Marta Anna Wiecka
learned that a hospital worker
who was a young father had been
given the job of disinfecting the
room of someone sick with
highly contagious typhoid fever.
She volunteered to take the place
of the young man, and she
became ill with typhoid fever.

Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
As a child, Pier Giorgio Frassati
once answered the door of the
family home to find a mother
begging; her son, shoeless, was
with her. Pier Giorgio gave the
boy his own shoes.

Bl. Miriam Teresa Demjanovich
During her time at the College
of St. Elizabeth, Convent
Station, NJ, many individuals
remarked on Teresa's humility
and genuine piety. She could be
found kneeling in the college
chapel at all hours and was very
devoted to praying the rosary.
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Bl. Ceferino Giménez Malla
A member of the St. Vincent de
Paul Society, he was martyred
on 9 August 1936 in Spain. After
the outbreak of the Spanish
Civil in July 1936, Ceferino saw
a priest being arrested and
spoke up on the priest's behalf.
The soldiers turned on him and
he was eventually executed.

20th Century Spanish Martyrs
In 1936, twenty-seven
Daughters of Charity, one lay
woman, and fourteen from the
Congregation of the Mission
were killed "in odium fidei", as a
result of the hatred of the
Catholic faith.

St. Gianna Beretta Molla
St. Gianna Beretta Molla placed
the life of her unborn child
before her own. She is the
patron saint for mothers,
preborn children and
physicians.

Bl. Lindalva Justo De Oliveira
For defending her virginity,
Lindalva Justo De Oliveira,
Daughter of Charity was
brutally murdered by a resident
were she worked.

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