January 2012 Blog Posts (6)

“There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.”

This insightful statement by St. Vincent de Paul remains relevant today, yet, like so many of his words, is little known outside of scholarly circles.

Until now. The Vincentian Studies Institute of DePaul University is pleased to announce the debut of the “What did Vincent say?” Vincent de Paul Quotes Site, an online database that makes his writings and…

The General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission and the Secretariat International des Etudes Vincentiennes will co-sponsor two Vincentian Study Seminars to be held at All Hallows College in Ireland. For more information see the announcement below:

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I am currently in Paris researching the agricultural role of major landholding religious communities in the Ancien Regime, with a particular focus on the Congregation of the Mission. I am interested in the management practices and culture of the Lazarists, their role in "improvements" both physical and in terms of control, and in how they perceived their role as major religious landowners in an era when both agricultural practices and the social utility of religious communities were…

Notice Historique sur l'origine et les effets de la NOUVELLE MEDAILLE, frappee en l'honneur de l'Immaculee Conception de la Tres Sainte Vierge, et generalement connue sous le nom de Medaille miraculeuse, suivie d' une neuvaine.By M. *** pretre de la Congregation de la Mission de St.-Lazare. Quatrieme Edition, considerablement…

Reglemens de la Compagnie des Dames de la Charite de la Paroisse de S. Paul pour le soin des Pauvres, (Paris: Chez Pierre Colin, Imprimeur & Libraire, rue de la Harpe, proche Saint Cosme, aux quatre Evangelistes, 1669).

The Vincentiana Collection of DePaul University's Archives and Special Collections has recently acquired a very rare 1669 copy of the rules for the Ladies of Charity for the parish of Saint-Paul in Paris. The parish of Saint-Paul was an early site of the…