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*He was ordained in 1600. * In Rome he came to the attention of Pope Paul V. *In 1625 he founded an order of secular priests to work in rural areas; it became the Congregation of the Mission.

*died at Paris, 27 September.

*After the poor of the country, Vincent's solicitude was directed towards the convicts in the galleys.

*in 1600 he remained at Toulouse or in its vicinity acting as tutor while continuing his own studies. *Vincent de Paul had established the Daughters of Charity almost at the same time as the exercises des ordinands. *At first they were intended to assist the conferences of charity. *With the assistance of a generous unknown who placed at his disposal the sum of 10,000 lives, Vincent founded the Hospice of the Name of Jesus, where forty old people of both sexes found a shelter and work suited to their condition. *Vincent's zeal and charity went beyond the boundaries of France. As early as 1638 he commissioned his priests to preach to the shepherds of the Roman Campagna. *Forty years later (1705) the Superior-General of the Lazarists requested that the process of his canonization might be instituted. *On 13 August, 1729, Vincent was declared Blessed by Benedict XIII. *In 1885 Leo XIII gave him as patron to the sisters of Charity. *In the course of his long and busy life Vincent de Paul wrote a large number of letters, estimated at not less than 30,000. After his death the task of collecting them was begun. *which remained was published rather incorrectly as "Lettres et conferérences de s. Vincent de Paul".

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