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VINCENTIAN STUDIES
Reference: St. Vincent Comics (pp. 30-40).

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1.       What mission in Italy did the Pope give to the Priests of the Missions?

2.   What work did the Priests of the Mission accomplish when they were in Genoa, Italy in compliance
to the assignment given to them by the Italian bishops?

3.   Whom did Fr. Vincent de Paul send to Poland to help Marie de Gonzaga, Queen of Poland with her
charity projects?

4.       What did the Vincentian group accomplish in Poland?

5.       Whom did Fr. Vincent send to Madagascar, Africa to start the mission work there?

6.   Whom did Fr. Vincent send to Madagascar in replacement for the dead companion of Fr. Nacquart?

7.       What missionary works did they accomplish in Madagascar?

8.   What missionary project did Fr. Vincent carry out in the Barbary States of North Africa (including
Algeria and Tunisia)?
9.       Who became the contact persons of Fr. Vincent's project in Tunis?

10.       What did the Vincentian priests accomplish in Tunis (Capital City of Tunisia)?

11.       Who gave financial support to Fr. Vincent's project in Tunis?

12.       What extreme solution did Fr. Vincent resort to carry out his project in Algiers?

13.   What trial did the Vincentian missionary in Algiers (Capital City of Algeria) experience?

14.   What were the two rules set by Fr. Vincent for the nuns of the Congregation of the Mission that
differentiated them from other congregation of nuns like the Visitation nuns of St. Francis de Sales?

15.   What did Fr. Vincent advice to the nuns of the Congregation of the Mission in their work for the
poor?

16.       When did Louise de Marillac die?

17.   Who was Fr. Vincent's companion who died almost at the same time as Louise de Marillac?

18.       When did Fr. Vincent die?

19.       How old was Vincent when he died?

20.       What unforgettable advice did Fr. Vincent gave to his Vincentian priests?

21.       What is the significance of August 3, 1728 to the Congregation of the Mission?

22.       What is the significance of June 16, 1737 to the Congregation of the Mission?

23.       What is the significance of April 1885 to the Congregation of the mission?

24.  What is the contribution of Frederic Ozanam as a Vincentian priests?

25. What is the contribution of Sister Catherine Laboure of the Daughters of Charity to Marian
Spirituality?

26-33. Who were the Vincentian priests that were given honors by The Catholic Church with the title
"Blessed"?

34-37.    Who were the nuns of the Daughters of Charity that were given the honor by the Catholic
Church with the title "Blessed"?

38.   Who was the first American born nun of the Daughters of Charity and what was her contribution to
the Church to merit the title "Saint"?

40.   What are the two great needs of man according to St. Vincent de Paul?
1. The pope encouraged them to give ordination retreats
2. They set aside their sermons so as to give sacraments to the sick and bury the dead
3. His own “tight hand man” Abbe Lambert
4. They accomplished organizing missions and confraternities of charity.
5. Fathers Gondree and Nacquart
6. Father Bourdaise
7. Madagascar has become one of the mission countries with a flourishing Catholicism
8. He assigns their consuls at Tunis and Algiers and give authorization to maintain priests to minister to
their own establishments
9. Father Julian Guerin
10. They were able to visit the slaves in their jails where they put up chapels.
11. Churches in France
12. Vincent was pushed to use force
13. The Algiers tied Father John le Vacher to the mouth of the cannon and firing him to the sea
14. They should not be inclosed in a house like religious women but a company of women with simple
and yearly vows inspired by the love of Christ
15. He reminded them the for monastery they will have instead the house of the sick for a cell rented
room for chapel the parish church, for cloister the street of the city or the wards of the hospital, for
enclosure, obedience. For grating, the fear of the Lord for veil holy modesty.
16. March 15, 1660
17. Father Portail
18. September 27, 1660
19. 79
20. “Let us serve the Poor with renewed love; Let us seek out the poorest and the most abandoned.
21. Pope Benedict XIII declared Vincent “Blessed”
22. Pope Clement XII canonized Vincent
23. Pope Leo XIII constituted Vincent as Universal patron of charitable works
24. Under his protection the meetings which he had founded under the name of “Conferences of Saint
Vincent the Paul” for the alleviation of misery of all kinds.
25. She was charged with the mission of spreading the devotion to her Immaculate Concepcion
26-33. Blessed Louise, Joseph Francois, Blessed John Gruyer, Blessed Peter Rene Rouge, Blessed Mary
Magdalene Fontaine, Blessed Mary Frances Lanel, Blessed Theresa Magdalene Fantou, Blessed Jean
Gerard
34-37.
38. St. Elizabeth Anne Seton
39. Charity and social justice