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- St. Vincent de Paul, born in 1580, was born to a poor family, but received an education under the Franciscans and was eventually ordained at the age of 20.
- Vincent was taken captive by Turkish pirates in Tunis in 1605, an event that began to inspire his heart of charity and compassion towards prisoners. He escaped two years later after converting his master.
- Vincent returned to Paris where he was inspired to minister to convicts who were prisoners in the galleys of Paris, Marseilles, and Bordeaux. He not only attended to their physical needs, but also helped to convert many to Christianity.
- Vincent founded the Vincentian order of priests (the Congregation of the Mission) as well as the Daughters of Charity to continue the work he began with the prisoners of France, in the hospitals he founded, with preaching missions, and ministering to slaves.
- St. Vincent de Paul died in 1660 in Paris and was canonized in 1737 by Pope Clement XII.
- He is a patron saint of, among other things, charities and charitable workers, prisoners, hospitals, St. Vincent de Paul societies, and the VSC.
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