Today (9/27) is the 450th aniversery of the death of st Vincent de Paul

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Happy Birthday St. Vincent de Paul!
St. Vincent’s body was exhumed in 1712, 53 years after his death. The written account of an eye witness states that “…(t)he eyes and nose alone showed some decay.” However, when the body was exhumed again during the canonization in 1737 it was then discovered to have decomposed due to an underground flood. His bones have been encased in a waxen figure which is displayed in a glass reliquary in the chapel of the headquarters of the Vincentian fathers in Paris. His heart is still incorrupt, and is displayed in a reliquary in the chapel of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity in Paris.
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Please pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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I’ll bet Christ is breaking out only the best wine today… just like every other day with a saint who is honoured. 🙂 Saint Vincent de Paul is one of the most inspiring saints in my life, with his kindly, gentle, charitable way of life. Nothing beats Christian morality when it is personified in truly great and humble men like St. Vincent.

Vincent de Paul, ora pro nobis!
 
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