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Saint Vincent de Paul was a priest of the 1600s whose ambition at the beginning was to lead a comfortable life, but by some extraordinary events, God led him to become a great saint. He was captured by pirates on the sea and was a slave for two years in North Africa. Later, when he went to the deathbed confession of a dying peasant, to his shock he found the man spiritual destitute, and that every one of his previous confessions had been sacrilegious. People needed help, he realized. At last, his life became one of ceaseless efforts for the destitute, the poor, sick, galley slaves, invalids, and the insane, Mother-Teresa like. A man of great appeal to others, others helped him and joined in his work, He even began a religious order to carry out his work, the order identified in the title of the article linked above. He became famous in his country and responsible for a spiritual revival there.
The article linked above identifies his feast day as July 19; however this was his feast day according to the old calendar of feastdays until 1969. His feast day now is September 27.
Saint Vincent de Paul was a priest of the 1600s whose ambition at the beginning was to lead a comfortable life, but by some extraordinary events, God led him to become a great saint. He was captured by pirates on the sea and was a slave for two years in North Africa. Later, when he went to the deathbed confession of a dying peasant, to his shock he found the man spiritual destitute, and that every one of his previous confessions had been sacrilegious. People needed help, he realized. At last, his life became one of ceaseless efforts for the destitute, the poor, sick, galley slaves, invalids, and the insane, Mother-Teresa like. A man of great appeal to others, others helped him and joined in his work, He even began a religious order to carry out his work, the order identified in the title of the article linked above. He became famous in his country and responsible for a spiritual revival there.
The article linked above identifies his feast day as July 19; however this was his feast day according to the old calendar of feastdays until 1969. His feast day now is September 27.