September 27, 2024, Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, Priest, Holy Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries)

Friends of the Rosary,

Today, September 27, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of the French priest St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), who founded the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission or Lazarists (now known as Vincentians) to preach especially to ignorant peasants of that time and to establish seminaries.
St. Vincent de Paul was a great apostle of charity, and brought a great revival of the priesthood in the 17th century. As a young priest, he was captured by Moorish pirates who carried him to Africa. He was sold into slavery, but freed in 1607 when he converted his owner.

To help poor girls, invalids, the insane, sick, and unemployed, he and St. Louise de Marillac founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, now better known as the Sisters of St. Vincent.

St. Vincent worked tirelessly to help those in need: the impoverished, the sick, the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored.

His motto was "God sees you."

"Let us love God; but at the price of our hands and sweat of our face."

Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
St. Vincent de Paul, Pray for Us!

To Jesus through Mary!

+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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