He had the charism of prophesy and developed a lay apostolate

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St Vincent Pallotti​

Celebrated on January 22nd

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A priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate , the son of a Roman grocer, St Vincent was ordained priest in 1817. He taught theology at Sapienza, but was much more interested in pastoral work and resigned from teaching to become chaplain to several Roman colleges including the English, Scottish and Irish.

Although he was not encouraged by the clergy he developed a lay apostolate which anticipated the ideas of Vatican II. In 1835 he founded his Society from a group of clergy and laity who were committed to conversion and social justice. They set up schools and evening classes for workers.

St Vincent had the gift of prophesy and was sought out as a wise and kind confessor. He was also very generous and kept giving away his clothes to the poor. He died of pleurisy in 1850 when he was just 55.

His congregation has flourished in Italy, Brazil, Australia and America. It specialises in the care of immigrants and promoting ecumenical contacts with the Eastern Orthodox churches. St Vincent was canonised in 1963.

(from ICN)
 
St. Vincent Palotti, pray for us! 🙏

Interestingly, January 22nd is also the optional memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon and martyr.
 
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St. Vincent seems like a very charismatic priest,
and must have been very humble seeing he lived
around the time of St. Vincent De Paul.
 
I believe the optional memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa and St. Anastasios of Persia (a martyr who lived 300 years later but was traditionally honored same day as St. Vincent) is on the Tridentine calendar but no longer on the general calendar for US. St. Vincent was moved to Jan 23 so he’s tomorrow.

St. Vincent and St. Anastasios are quite interesting, I will post their bios below.

Rob2, I really appreciate your posting these ICN saints. St. Vincent Pallotti seems to be largely ignored in USA except by Pallottines and Secular Franciscans, which is just sad given what an interesting saint he is. I think it’s a case of “Roe v. Wade day” on Jan 22 taking precedence over all else.
 
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Here’s St. Vincent of Saragossa, who’s today (Jan 22) on the Tridentine calendar, tomorrow (Jan 23) on the current US calendar.


Here’s St. Anastasios, who I find interesting because before he converted he was trained as a magi (magician or wizard) by his dad, also a magi.

 
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I believe the optional memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa and St. Athanasius of Persia (a martyr who lived 300 years later but was traditionally honored same day as St. Vincent) is on the Tridentine calendar but no longer on the general calendar for US. St. Vincent was moved to Jan 23 so he’s tomorrow.
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Didn’t know that about the US, 🤔 so thanks for the info. 🙂:+1:t3: According to my breviary (Collins UK, 1974), the current Ordo for my (French) Archdiocese, and my EF missal (1962), today is the optional memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa so apparently it’s on both calendars in at least France, the UK and Ireland. :woman_shrugging:t2: St. Anastasios is also in my EF missal only.
 
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The US calendar is different from the UK and Europe calendar. That’s part of why I enjoy Rob’s posts and his links to ICN so much. It’s all different saints for me 🙂 I already went through most of the US ones last year following the Catholic Culture calendar online.

If you have French saints to post that are different, please do post them. I am on the verge of buying an old French missal so I can find more saints along with their collects. I personally would like to see a much more global calendar so we don’t miss out on a saint just because he’s English or French. Heck, we probably miss out on some Canadian and Mexican saints and those countries are right next door.
 
Yes, I’m aware that the calendars vary depending upon location. I was just explaining why I brought up St. Vincent of Saragossa. 🙂

Is ICN using a specific calendar, or are they featuring saints that aren’t on an official calendar?
 
My impression is that ICN is using the UK calendar because so many of the saints are from there and Rob’s from UK. I could be wrong though. They put up St. Philip of Moscow and I wasn’t even aware he was a Catholic saint (he’s definitely a Russian Orthodox saint) . I venerated him anyway because he deserves it.
 
My breviary is the one used in the UK, so I’m sure ICN isn’t using their calendar. Doesn’t matter. I was just curious 😇
 
I’m curious now too. Maybe they’re just picking saints they think are interesting.

It doesn’t matter to me as I just like to find new saints. I do this devotion where you need a new saint for pretty much every day, and after I hit about 250 saints I had to go on a saint hunt to find and learn about more of them to add to the list. I know Catholic Online has a list of saints for every day, but some of them have no biography and it can be difficult to tell if the entry is reliable or perhaps just a permutation of an entry for another saint.
 
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